In a serious indictment of the Samajwadi party Government claiming to following the ideals of Ram Manohar lohia for women empowerment, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has slammed the State Government for the gender bias in the State, where girls and women were deprived of basic amenities and crime against them has increased.
The CAG in its standalone report on ‘empowerment of women’ for the year ending on March 31 2015, said “the State Government failed to adopt the gender based budgeting even after 10 years of its declaration of the State Women policy in 2006 and gender segregated data were not being maintained by the programme implementing agencies of the State Government.
“Number of girl’s not attending pre-school education activities have exponentially increased from 3 per cent in 20101-11 to 33 per cent in 2014-15. Besides the incidence of crime against women in the State has been rising consistently during last five years. There has been 61 per cent increase in incidence of crime against women between 20101-11 and 2014-15. There was substantial increase in cases of rape ( 43 per cent) and kidnapping and abduction of girls/ women ( 21 per cent) during 2013-14 as compared to previous year,” the CAG report said.-