Maternity leave of 180-day should also be given to contractual women workers of private institutions, Salaries and allowances to lady teachers in private institutions should be at par with government counterparts, Physical norms in recruitment of women constables should be separate, State Woman Commission took significant policy-related decisions
Bags of visitors to shopping malls should be checked by private security personnel only when sound of beep is heard from metal detector. Security personnel should do checking only through scanning equipment and not hands. They should inform the police if individual searching is required. Security guards should not discharge duty without identity card. State Woman Commission has issued a general circular to private security agencies. This information was given at a policy-related meeting of the commission chaired by Upma Rai.
Commission’s members Jyoti Yewatikar, Shashi Sinho, Snehlata Uadhyay, Vandana Mandawi, Kavita Patidar and Member-Secretary Rama Chauhan apart from Commissioner Public Instructions Arun Kochar, Commissioner Home DP Gupta, Commissioner Health Suraj Damor, Commissioner law JM Chaturvedi, IG Sushma Singh, Additional Secretary Women and Child Development Rajni Uike and senior officers of various departments were present on the occasion.
State Woman Commissioner Chairperson Upma Rai said that the commission recommends that lady teachers of private schools should also be given facilities of salaries, allowances, health benefits, gratuity, provident etc. like their counterparts in government institutions. Private schools also realise separate fees for admission forms, which should be limited to `50.
With an objective of preventing crimes at initial stage, a ban should be imposed on playing of film songs by drivers of vehicles carrying students to schools, seating children on lap and feeding them anything. Member Kavita Patidar said that the Transport Department has set rules for recruitment of women constables like their male counterparts, which is not proper. There should be separate norms for physical test for recruitment of men and men candidates. Similarly, males securing lesser marks than women in State Public Service and recruitment exams of some departments have been given appointment, which should not have been.
At the meeting, it was decided to send recommendations for extending treatment facility in the nearest hospital in neighbouring state to the residents of villages situated on the borders of Madhya Pradesh, further boost educational facility to children in Patalkot, increase number of women constables in jails, give compensation immediately to wife deceased prisoner of Satna jail late Bachhu lal, provide safe kit in all the police stations and constitute rehabilitation committee for upliftment of women.