Something for everyone in new policy
Something
for everyone in new policy
Sayli Udas Mankikar, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, March 08, 2013
Mumbai, March 08, 2013
First Published: 02:06
IST(8/3/2013)
Last Updated: 02:07 IST(8/3/2013)
Last Updated: 02:07 IST(8/3/2013)
Children
of single mothers, who are divorced, widowed or estranged, may no longer have
to mention their father's name on school and college forms.
Institutes will need to make changes to their forms to accept the mother's name as the head of family, says one of the many provisions
Institutes will need to make changes to their forms to accept the mother's name as the head of family, says one of the many provisions
in
the new women's policy to be presented by women and child minister Varsha
Gaikwad to chief minister Prithviraj Chavan at a Women's Day function to be
held at Pune on Saturday.
Other
proposed provisions include construction of toilets on highways at every 50
kilometres or a distance of one hour. Also, considering the large number of
women who are over 65 years old and live alone - either unmarried, widowed or
divorced - the state plans to bring in a special pension scheme for them.
In
addition to these, largely-ignored sections including the transgenders,
devdasis and tamasha dancers will be given special benefits. This is the third
policy that the government has come up with, after revising the first one
brought out in 1994 and the second in 2001.
"Times
have changed and women are heading and running the show in many households. In
such cases, children should be allowed to officially take on the name and
surname of the mother. Although this is officially allowed in many schools, it
is not implemented everywhere," a government official explained.
For
young girls, the government will appeal to banks to lower the interest rates
for education loans.
"We
have proposed to form a welfare board for groups that have been ignored, such
as transgenders, where issues related to their health and education will be
dealt with. We will strengthen existing rules for devdasis and float support
schemes for tamasha dancers who usually end their careers at 40 years of
age," the official added.
Former
mayor and member of national women's commission, Nirmala Prabhavalkar, termed
the revised policy 'encouraging' and said 'ignored sections had found ground'.
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