A Citizen's Response to National Policy For Women 2016
RESPONSE
TO SPECIFIC SECTIONS OF
NATIONAL POLICY FOR WOMEN 2016
THIS POLICY
MUST NOT BE IMPLEMENTED AS IT IS COMPLETELY AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA’S
ACCEPTANCE TO UDHR (UNIVERSAL DECLERATION HUMAN RIGHTS)
5. PRIORITY AREAS
I. Health including
food security and nutrition
iv) A gender
transformative health strategy which recognises women’s reproductive rights
with shifts such as family planning focus from female sterilisation to male
sterilisation will be developed and implemented.
Response:
Looks
like this priority area is FUNDED by Artificial insemination and Sperm Bank
Industry. Please share the details of Funds received by Ministry of WCD from
this Corporate Vertical.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
I. Health including
food security and nutrition
v) Apart from
maternal health, the focus of other health problems of women including
communicable and non-communicable diseases like cancer, cardio vascular
disease, HIV/AIDS will be given prioritised attention with appropriate
strategies and interventions.
Response:
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
Article
25
1.
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and
well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and
medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the
event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack
of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
I. Health including
food security and nutrition
vi) Taking into
account the vulnerable status of elderly women above 60 years of age who
constitute 8.4% of the population, geriatric health care will require special
attention in conformity with the National Policy on Senior Citizens 2011.
Geriatric services including preventive, curative, and rehabilitative
healthcare will be strengthened with appropriate government and public-private
sector participation.
Response:
Geriatric
Care, worldwide is a Gender Neutral term. It is really shameful of the ministry
of showing 'priortisation' based on gender. It is really sad that this
government thinks that Old Age men do not need Geriatric Care on priority. This
ministry must be closed down else the already high mortality rate of men in
India will go higher. If this ministry has coined a hoax 'female foeticide',
why should this not be called as 'MALE AGEDICIDE' by the Government? It is even
more ironical that this ministry has based this on National Policy on Senior
Citizens 2011, WHICH DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE OR PRIORITSE BASED ON GENDER.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
I. Health including
food security and nutrition
viii) The National
Mental Health Policy (2014) recognises that women have a greater risk of mental
disorders due to various reasons primarily due to discrimination, violence and
abuse. A systematic approach to provide requisite screening, care and treatment
especially at primary level will be made.
Response:
It is
really shameful that such a discrimination is being proposed. If government
trusts it's own data, as per NCRB, total number of suicides in India because of
Mental Illness in 2014 were 7104. Of these 7000+ suicides, 4700+ of MEN and
2300+ of WOMEN. So, the gender which commits suicides twice high as compared to
women would still be neglected. Such level of discrimination against men would
continue till this country gets a Ministry for Men.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
I. Health including
food security and nutrition
x) There is a dearth
of health care for women in their menopausal age. Though, the phase is
generally dismissed as a natural occurrence, women are increasingly facing
physical and emotional health problems like osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases,
depression etc. Suitable interventions will be initiated in this regard.
Response:
It is
really shameful that such a discrimination is being proposed. If government
trusts it's own data, as per NCRB, total number of suicides in India because of
Illness in 2014 were 23746. Of these 23000+ suicides, 16000+ of MEN and 7600+
of WOMEN. So, the gender which commits suicides more than twice high as
compared to women would still be neglected. Such level of discrimination
against men would continue till this country gets a Ministry for Men.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
I. Health including
food security and nutrition
xii)Special
attention will be given to the expansion of health insurance schemes such as
RSBY and the same linked to programmes like ICDS, JSY, NRLM, NREGS, NULM
benefitting women particularly the vulnerable and marginalised.
Response:
If
this comes in force, let Government put it very clearly in their policy
document & ELECTION MANIFESTO that they dont care if men, boys, old age men
fall sick under BPL category (and far Rajasthan where RSBY extends beyond BPL
too).
India
signed UDHR, which in Article 25 states: Everyone has the right to a standard
of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family,
including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social
services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness,
disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances
beyond his control.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
I. Health including
food security and nutrition
xv) Nutrition will
be accorded utmost priority as women are at high risk for nutritional
deficiencies in all the stages of their life cycle. To tackle the problem of
malnutrition, focussed attention will be paid at every stage right from
Ante-Natal Care (ANC) and Post Natal Care (PNC) for healthy foetal development
to the needs of adolescent girls to the stage of elderly women. Interventions
and services for addressing the intergenerational cycle of under-nutrition,
with focus on nutritional care for the first 1000 days of the child after birth
will be strengthened.
Response:
This
is exactly the reason that this Ministry MUST BE changed to Women and Girl
Child Development Ministry. Also, is the Government wanting to leave men to
starve based on their Gender? India is signatory of UDHR, which in Article 25
clearly states that Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for
the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
I. Health including
food security and nutrition
xviii) Nutritious
and safe food through Public Distribution System (PDS) for households
especially the unreached women and children with high nutritional vulnerabilities
as envisaged in National Food Security Act, 2013 will be made available.
Management of institutions of food/grain banks by women Groups (SHGs) could be
considered to enable uninterrupted supply of food grains even in times of
natural/man-made calamities or disasters such as flood, drought etc.
Response:
In
addition to complete violation of UDHR, please let the public know if India is
under so much feminist pressure that even policies like National Food Security
Act would be made Gender Biased? India, before doing bringing in this Draft
Policy in action, MUST WITHDRAW FROM UNIVERSAL DECLERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
& UNITED NATIONS.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
i) Pre- School
education at the Anganwadi Centres will be strengthened and efforts will be
made to improve access to pre-primary education for girl children by involving
the community and sensitizing the parents. This will improve children’s
communication and cognitive skills as a preparation for entry into primary
school. This will help older children, particularly girls, to attend schools
and prevent their poor performance and early dropouts by making them free from
the responsibility of sibling care.
Response:
Why is
this Ministry still named as 'child' too Ministry. This ministry has done
NOTHING for MALE Child or Boys. With School dropout percentage being highest in
boys. With Child Labor rates being highest for boys, it is inhuman for this
BIASED policy to have left boys out.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
iii) Priority will
be accorded to increased enrolment and retention of adolescent girls in
schools, at post primary level it will be done through provision of gender
friendly facilities like functional girls’ toilets, and higher recruitment of
women teachers. Promotion of skill development, vocational training and life
skills as a part of the secondary school education curriculum for adolescent
girls and young women will be given importance. Efforts will be made to address
the repetition rates for girls including those from the marginalised
communities with varying underlying causes to arrest drop-out. A mission mode
approach for literacy amongst women is envisaged.
Response:
Does
the Ministry have ANY DATA to make such a policy, even in a draft? What data
supports that boys would not need skill development or vocational training or
life skills? Please make education accessible for the Child and not the GENDER.
With the Ministry itself spreading so much of Gender Bias, government believes
that in India, Male gender has any benefits?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
iv) Efforts will be
made to provide a supportive environment in schools and colleges through a
responsive complaint mechanism to address discriminatory attitudes within the
organisation and in practice, particularly on the issue of sexual harassment
and intimidation of girls and young women. Opportunities for recreation and
participation in cultural activities will be promoted.
Response:
India
is a country with the widest level of misuse of EVERY Gender Based Law. It is
country which can boast of misuse to the level of 75% to 98% of all these laws.
Still the Ministry wants the life of young boys so miserable? Why did India
vowed in United Nations to 'Protect it's CHILDREN', when the intent was to
criminalize boys at very tender age? As it is, under the influence of this
Ministry, the country has violated all International conventions signed by
India, when the Juvenile Justice Act was amended recently.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
v) Continued efforts
will be made for the gender sensitization of the faculty and curriculum,
content and pedagogies for an understanding of concepts of masculinity and
femininity and gender stereotypes. Gender champions in schools and colleges
will be promoted to ensure gender sensitivity in the educational system.
Response:
With a
Ministry who have given such an Anti Male, Anti Boys, BIASED policy draft, can
the job of any gender neutrality be entrusted? Did Men of India voted BJP to
power for THIS??
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
vi) There is a need
for quality management of government schools in terms of teaching, facilities
and standards. Monitoring and evaluation by the community, Mothers groups and
SHGs will be encouraged.
Response:
The
draft which itself discriminates against fathers, must be shelved immediately.
Even in this proposal, the Policy mentions of 'Mothers groups' and NOT 'PARENTs
GROUPS'.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
viii) Major
constraints that prevent women from accessing higher and technical/scientific
education should be identified and girls will be encouraged to take up new
subject choices linked to career opportunities. An inter-sectoral plan of
action will be formulated for encouraging the enrolment of women in
professional/scientific courses, by provision of financial assistance,
coaching, hostels, child care etc.
Response:
Is the
government turning Anti-Poor? Instead of providing Financial Assistance to
Poor, now it is proposed to be given based on Gender? So Poor and marginalized
boys will not get financial assistance while Rich and powerful women will get
it? Just because they are Women? Please confirm this in the Election Manifesto
too.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
x) Through innovative
partnerships with leading universities at the international level,
opportunities for higher education will be may be expanded for ensuring access
and quality to girl students and staff and also for nurturing of talent and
entrepreneurship to contribute to the national development challenges.
Response:
Boys
will not have this right to International level education based on their
Gender? UDHR, Article 26 reads, "Everyone has the right to
Education". Government is looking for violating UDHR? India was part of
the UN meet where UDHR was passed with India's 'Aye'.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
xi) Distance
education plays an important role in providing opportunities of higher
education to women of all ages. Universities and academic institutions will be
encouraged to launch online distance education courses to promote skill
development and entrepreneurship for all women including those who had a break
in their educational attainment.
Response:
It is
really sad to see that Ministry feels that Distance is NOT AN ISSUE for Boys.
Will Internet access will also be GENDER BIASED soon? Instead of making
education easier, accessible and quality for ALL CHILDREN, Ministry is
completely ignoring Boys Education.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
xiii) Efforts will
be made to remove the disparities in access to and proficiency in information
and communication technology (ICT), particularly between socio-economically
advantaged and disadvantaged children, and between rural and urban schools as
the use of ICT has now become pivotal for the entire education system.
Public-private partnerships (PPP) will be adopted for building ICT
infrastructure, developing applications and locally relevant content using
gender-sensitive language, operations and maintenance and developing the
capacity of teachers required for harnessing the full capacity of ICT
productive tools.
Response:
Gender
Sensitive language? So using abusive terms for Male will be allowed? As a
citizen, I fail to understand this. Why doesnt the content ensure that
sensitivity is towards Human? We are country which respected Humans
historically. This is the reason we said 'namaste' to all irrespective of
Gender. In the name of Feminism, this Ministry, with this Policy is just making
India more and more Anti Men. The Policy must not be implemented.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
II. Education
xiv) Regular Audit
on a continuous basis, of the various schemes and incentives, subsidies that
are being offered to promote girls education will be undertaken to assess
whether these interventions have resulted in transformative changes.
Response:
When
the Government has already discovered the Foregin funding violations of most of
the Feminist NGOs (http://thewire.in/40232/mha-suspends-fcra-registration-of-indira-jaisings-ngo/ & http://www.mumbaimirror.com/news/india/Teestas-NGO-loses-licence-to-receive-foreign-funds/articleshow/52789054.cms) and have also found that almost all of
the NGOs under WCD are fake (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/good-governance/centre-ngo/90-of-NGOs-seeking-funds-under-WCD-scheme-found-fake/articleshow/46790570.cms), should a tax payer money still be
used to give any funding to this Ministry too? When the Hon'ble Prime Minister
is focussing on 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas', why this Ministry should be given
the Taxpayer's money to do 'Ek ka Saath, Doosre ka Vikas'?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
III. Economy
Poverty
Women constitute
majority of population affected by poverty. Efforts for assessment of the
incidence of poverty by gender estimates will be done as household estimates do
not provide gender poverty estimates. Relation between gender and poverty
dynamics will be addressed. Since poverty head count ratio is not sex
disaggregated, alternative gendered pilot surveys to address intra-household
differentials in wellbeing will be undertaken. All poverty eradication
programmes will give focus to women participation.
Response:
As per
NCRB, in 2014, in India, 91820 persons committed suicide whose income was under
Rupees 1 Lakh. Of these, 61184 were Male and 30624. This means that in less
than 1 lakh annual money category, for every 1 Female committing suicide, 2 Men
committed suicide. So inspite of this public data on more men being poor, the
Policy has taken a reverse angle with a WRONG explanation? Should such a
wrongly researched data based Policy document be allowed? It will be an
atrocity on Indian citizens.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
III. Economy
Raising visibility
ii) Gender wage gap
across rural and urban, agricultural and non- agricultural jobs, regular and
casual employment will be addressed. Ensuring pay parity, satisfactory
conditions of work are critical subjects for insecurity for women particularly
in the informal employment. This growing informalisation and casualization of
women’s work / labour will also be adequately addressed.
Response:
Has
the Ministry collected any CREDIBLE data for this assumption? There is NO
Gender wage gap in India. Infact, at work, lot of work of women is done by men
in name of 'Chivalry' or 'help'. Hasnt the Ministry seen only Men working late
in offices? Only Men doing overtime? Accidental deaths because of Unnatural
causes in India, in 2014, as per NCRB were total 316828, of which there were
251791 Male and 64977 Women. For every 1 woman dying in Accidental deaths (incl
Workplace accidents), 4 men die. Still the Ministry is conviniently ignoring
the Male Working population? Is the value of a Man's life any lesser as per the
Ministry?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
III. Economy
iii) Fiscal and
monetary policies will be analysed from gender perspective since they have
impending impact on the lives of women. The gender affirmative role of direct
taxation will be further enhanced through various incentives like reduction in
stamp duties for women if assets are registered in their name, lowering of
income tax slabs for women etc.
Response:
With
Women holding 90% of Gold reserves in India, still benefits only for women? Men
have to pay more tax, more duty, more cess, based on Gender? UDHR Preamble
reads, "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and
inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of
freedom, justice and peace in the world,". Has India forgotten UDHR?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
III. Economy
vi) Women undertake
the bulk of unpaid care work such as looking after and educating children,
looking after older family members, caring for the sick, preparing food,
cleaning, and collecting water and fuel etc. This unequal burden of unpaid care
undermines women’s participation in economy. Recognizing women’s unpaid work in
terms of economic and societal value, household surveys will be undertaken to
assess the gender inequality in the household work and undertake suitable
strategies to integrate unpaid work with the major programmes. Further measures
will be undertaken to free woman’s time for paid work through time-saving
technologies, infrastructure, child/parental care services (Crèches) and child
care/parental leave.
Response:
It is
sad that this Ministry is misrepresenting the contributions of an individual
towards her family as 'unpaid' work. Does a Man gets paid the salary of a
Driver for taking the family for outing? Does a Man gets paid to be the bodyguard
at home? Does a Man get paid for being the Plumber, Electrician at Home? Does a
Man get paid to be the Doorman at Home? Does a Man get paid to be the person
doing dangerous jobs at home (say to stop flooding of overhead water tanks
etc.)? It is really an Alarm for the Government to STOP such thought processes
going in the society. Such thoughts are made just to make Families more
unstable and to break more families. It is hightime that the MANDATE and
GUIDELINES of the work this Ministry should take up, must be revisited and
corrected.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
III. Economy
ix) In order to
prevent marginalization of women migrant workers at their place of destination,
a system of new registration or portability of entitlements such as ration
cards and identity papers from source place will be ensured particularly under
PDS. Registration of tribal migrants by Panchayats will be ensured. Special
efforts will be made to safeguard the interests of migrant tribal worker
especially domestic workers by registration of migrant domestic workers under
the Unorganized Sector Social Security Act 2008. The system of monitoring and
accountability of placement agencies for domestic workers will be strengthened.
Response:
Whats
the plan for the Milkman, the Newspaper boy, the Car Cleaner, the Gardner, the
Line man, the sweeper, the cook, the driver, the office boy, the security gaurd
etc. etc. etc.? Ignoring them is way too easy for this Ministry. How can this
ministry be trusted with such a portfolio?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
III. Economy
Agriculture
FOR ALL THE POINTS:
Response:
Of
Self Employed persons in Agriculture, in 2014, 25904 committed suicide as per
NCRB. Of these, 22974 were Male while 2928 were female. Male committing suicide
is 8 times high. Still the Ministry is trying to create a divide so that the
policies for even Farmer Suicide become more Anti Male Farmers?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
III. Economy
Industry, Labour and
Employment (Skill Development, Entrepreneurship), Service Sector, Science and
Technology.
FOR ALL THE POINTS:
Response:
Ministry
has pushed laws ONLY to protect women. Ministry has pushed laws ONLY to
penalize Men. Ministry is proposing change of Tax Structure against Women. And
with all that, all points are to push men out to create space? I have heard
many speeches of Shri Narendra Modi. All said one thing, Skill India. Work as
per the Skill and Capability. Work based on Gender is a very very unhealthy and
very regressive practise.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
IV. Governance and
Decision Making
FOR ALL THE POINTS:
Response:
It is
a myth that Ministry is projecting as if Men make it to these bodies 'easily'.
All the arms, i.e. legislature, executive, judiciary have Entrance
Examinations. Even a Member of Parliament has to win votes to be a Member of
Parliament. The Ministry seems to have said that there is no need of any
competitiveness in either of these and hence Gender based reservation has to be
done. If thats the case, is the Government OK to give MEN, 50% reservation in
all the mentioned areas?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
V. Violence Against
Women
i) Efforts to
address all forms of violence against women will be continued with a holistic
perspective through a life cycle approach in a continuum from the foetus to the
elderly starting from sex selective termination of pregnancy, denial of
education, child marriage to violence faced by women in private sphere of home,
public spaces and at workplace. It will identify and combat violence and abuse
through a combination of laws, programs, and services with the support of
diverse stakeholders
Response:
A
Ministry which treats Child Marriage as a women issue must not be given any
mandate. The same ministry conveniently ignores Violence against men when their
own report proves that of every 100 child sexually abused in India, 54 are
boys.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
V. Violence Against
Women
ii) Efforts to
improve Child Sex Ratio (CSR) will be continued through a judicious combination
of effective implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic
Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994, and advocacy through awareness and sensitisation
to change the mindsets by involving communities and the stakeholders for
valuing the girl Child. Special measures to combat violence and crimes against
adolescent girls in public and domestic spaces will be adopted.
Response:
When
it is a known fact that most of the pre-birth abortions in India are
Pre-Marriage birth terminations, why is this Ministry portraying India as an
Anti Girl Child country? Census of India itself is a statistical projection and
not an absolute number thus any data presented by this ministry is as it is
statistically extrapolated.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
V. Violence Against
Women
iii) Trafficking of
women and children is a cause for concern and will receive prioritized
attention. Requisite steps for prevention of trafficking at source, transit and
destination areas for effective monitoring of the networks of trafficking will
be given a priority. Existing legislations/schemes for prevention,
rehabilitation of victims of trafficking will be suitably strengthened. Efforts
will be made to raise awareness regarding the subtle and violent nature of sex
trafficking and how women and children subjected to this crime are victimized
through coercion.
Response:
The
way this Ministry is pushing to make even Human Trafficking law Gender Biased,
Men will not have any safety in India.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
V. Violence Against
Women
iv) There is need
for effective implementation of The Persons with Disabilities (Equal
Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 to ensure
that all provisions of the Act are benefiting differently abled girls and
women. To prevent violence and sexual exploitation of the differently abled,
focussed advocacy and sensitisation of various stakeholders such as law
enforcement, judiciary, panchayats will be undertaken.
Response:
Equal
Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation Act, 1995 to be
treated UNEQUAL? Seems that this Ministry is under International pressure to
make every law of India Gender Biased and Anti Male.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
V. Violence Against
Women
v) Strict monitoring
of response of enforcement agencies to violence against women will be put in
place. Efforts will be made to ensure speedy /time bound trial of heinous
crimes against women. Alternate dispute redressal systems such as family
courts, Nari Adalats etc., will be strengthened.
Response:
Judiciary is one of the most important Pillar of democracy. The performance of
Judiciary is also monitored by senior Judiciary. Unfortunately this Ministry
doesnt want the Trial procedures to remain unbiased. UDHR Article 10 states,
"Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an
independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and
obligations and of any criminal charge against him." This Ministry wishes
to violate UDHR which India is a signatory too.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
V. Violence Against
Women
viii) Efforts will
be made to streamline data systems through review of various data sources
(Census, NFHS, NSS, NCRB) to develop a compatible and comprehensive data base
on Violence Against Women.
Response:
As it
is NFHS, NSS, NCRB, Census, all ignore Violence against men. If the Ministry
wishes to mishandle the data to change it to make 'compatible', then it will
result in death of Judiciary. Instead, all the Data Collection agencies MUST be
asked to collect data about Violence against Men.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
V. Violence Against
Women
ix) Engaging men and
boys through advocacy, awareness generation programmes and community programmes
will be undertaken.
Response:
As it
is, Men are brought up in India to be the Protector and Provider. The Ministry
wants to overburden them to be the Protector and Provider of the every Women.
When will Men get Independence within Independent India?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
V. Violence Against
Women
x) Gender specific
training incorporating gender sensitivity and a thorough briefing on the
specific laws for women will be undertaken continuously for all ranks and
categories of police personnel. Training for the judiciary, judicial schools,
and all legal practitioners, will be accorded a priority for developing the
specialized skills needed to investigate and prosecute cases related to gender
based violence.
Response:
India,
as a country has a history of misuse of Gender Biased Laws to the tune of
75-95%. Training of Investigative Authroities and Judiciary is part of further
bias that the Ministry wishes to run in the Pillars of Judiciary. Do men even
get the right to Fight litigation unbiased? Apart from UDHR violations (where
the independent Tribunal is no more left independent), is this India which we
call 'Shinning India'?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
VI. Enabling
Environment
Housing and Shelter
ALL THE POINTS:
Response:
It is
requested that first Government MUST do a detailed survey on the Gender and
number of homeless persons in the country. India also is a country which has
over 68% of homeless as Men. Still the Ministry is pushing for making more and
more Men only homeless?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
VI. Enabling
Environment
Drinking Water and
Sanitation
ALL THE POINTS:
Response:
It is
unfortunate to see that Government is wanting to discriminate between genders
based on something as basic as Drinking Water. Do men in India dont even have
the right to have safe drinking water? Why should men stay in India? Isnt this
similar to the years old caste system where poor were not allowed to fetch
water from the water-well which rich used to use. Now, this policy wishes to
make such water-well only for women where men are NOT ALLOWED to drink water.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
VI. Enabling
Environment
Media
ALL THE POINTS:
Response:
With
the known fact of media not covering news of Crime Against Men, the Ministry
wishes to make Media further Anti Male. Should this Ministry be allowed to
interfere in another important pillar of democracy i.e. Media, based on Gender?
5. PRIORITY AREAS
VI. Enabling
Environment
Social Security
i) Efforts will be
made to strengthen the existing supportive social infrastructure for women
especially the vulnerable, marginalized, migrant and single women. This is
imperative in view of their increasing life span, more conservative investment
habits, variability in labour force participation and the role in home based
production or unpaid work. Attention will also be paid to the needs of domestic
workers and appropriate steps taken to ensure overtime pay, annual paid leave,
minimum wages and safe working conditions.
Response:
Male
Life expectancy is Low & Average Life of Male in India is 2 years lower
than Female Average Life. Hiding this fact, the Ministry proposes to misuse
tax-payers' money in a biased manner. Also, the Ministry again is silent about
Male Domestic Workers.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
VI. Enabling
Environment
Social Security
ii) Concerted
efforts will be made towards strengthening social security and support services
like insurance products, pensions, travel concessions, subsidies, benefits
under BPL systems, childcare, crèches, working women hostels, shelter homes.
Corporate sector may be involved on a long term basis in the financing of the
insurance component under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Response:
Men
are already discriminated against in Insurance Policies, Travel Costs, Child
Care, Pension policies, Subsidies. It is very sad that the Ministry is pushing
all these further to be Anti Men.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
VI. Enabling
Environment
Social Security
iii) Among the
various aspects of social security, measures will be taken to ensure effective
implementation of provisions of maternity benefits such as leave and nursing
breaks under the Maternity Benefit Act (1961).
Response:
With
Fathers taking care of Children, the Ministry is still not looking into Shared
Child Parenting as a norm. UDHR Article 22 states, "Everyone, as a member
of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization,
through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with
the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and
cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his
personality."
5. PRIORITY AREAS
VI. Enabling
Environment
Infrastructure
ALL THE POINTS:
Response:
With
Men still being pushed to be the Provider to the family, many men travel on
daily basis for work. Instead of making Public Infrastructure safe for men, the
Ministry is proposing to make travel for working men more and more unsafe of
many False cases of Gender Biased Laws.
5. PRIORITY AREAS
VII. Environment and
Climate Change
ALL THE POINTS:
Response:
UDHR Article 30 states, "Nothing in this Declaration may be
interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in
any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the
rights and freedoms set forth herein." Discriminating against men in case
of Acts of God is absolutely in-Human.
END OF DOCUMENT
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