2. 60 % of the Girls are married before the age of 16
Nearly 60% of the married girls bear children before
they are 18
125,000 women die from pregnancy and related
causes every year
Maternal mortality in India is the 2nd highest in the
world
3. They also suffer from…
Maternal Mortality
Women Trafficking
Malnutrition
Exploitative Practices
Child Marriage
Dowry
Gender Violence
Child Labor
Eve Teasing
Sexual Harassment
Family Abuse
& a lot more…
4. Women Empowerment- still an Illusion or Reality
What are the reasons for this sorry state of affairs ? Issues may be
various and varied, however a few basic issues deserve specific
mention :
Lack of awareness
Lack of social and economic empowerment
Lack of political will
Feebleness of accountability mechanisms
Lack of enforcement by the police force
Lack of gender culture
The question arises, how greater participation
of women in politics can be achieved ? Generally, the answer is
suggested in the form of 'reservation'. However, mere reservation will
not solve the problem unless and until women are given
commensurate powers to function effectively and they themselves
become more conscious and aware of their rights and duties.
5. As per Delhi Police, a woman is
raped every 18 hours or
molested every 14 hours in the
Capital.
Delhi-NCR takes the top slot for
crimes ranging from murders
and rapes to dowry deaths and
abductions.
In 1971, approx.2500 rape cases
were registered while in 2011,
approx. 24000 cases were
registered, witnessing a jump of
870%.
Total incidences of crime against
women in 2002 were approx.
1.46 Lakh and that in 2011 were
approx. 2.28 Lakh.
Delhi constitutes of 2.4% of total
rape cases held in india in 2011
6. The venture would need co-operation from the state government of Delhi
and Delhi Police otherwise it would be very difficult to implement
We would have to start from convincing and securing funding from
corporates and obtaining permissions from Delhi government
Run a pilot study by implementing say 5 vans on the Delhi streets and
about 50 security men
If pilot works successfully, we would scale the project and cover entire
Delhi-NCR region
During the pilot we would have to actually test the effectiveness of the
system and check if it works to prevent crimes against women
It would have to be a continuous process of Implement Learn
Improve
It could then be replicated in Mumbai.
FUNDING:
The organization would have to be funded through grants and donations
from corporates, world organizations like UN and philanthropic
association like Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
7. The project could have one title sponsor which would have to contribute
atleast half of the setup and operating costs – famous corporate houses
could integrate it with their CSR activities
ESTIMATED COST CALCULATIONS :
Personnel costs:
Assumptions
500 men stationed at important points in the city
Each van needs 3 people including driver
Van keeps 3 shifts of people to cover 24 hours
Total 500 vans on road and 30 admin people in the office to manage
them
About 5000 people needed
Total personnel cost comes about 9 crores per month for the service
8. Vehicle price 7,00,000
Equipments per vehicle 1,00,000
Total cost per vehicle 8,00,000
Number of vehicles 500
Cost of the Fleet 40,00,00,000
9. Steps to be taken
Let us create a social organization under public private partnership model dedicated
especially to the safety of women and to fight against all sorts of crimes against
women in the metro cities
A creation of a parallel police system in public private partnership model dedicated
to safety of women
Let us create a network of security personnel and security vans throughout the city of
Delhi and Mumbai especially dedicated to women safety
It would be a 24 hours service in which private security men would be stationed at
important and high crime places and security vans – similar to PCR vans – would
roam the city of Delhi and Mumbai throughout 24 hours
It would have helplines, call and sms services and would evolve gradually to include
more things
The organization would be a not-for-profit organization, could be in public private
partnership model (PPP model)
It would leverage the latest technologies to fight crime and would have to get
knowledge transferred from the police academies and organization from world over
– FBI, Scotland Yard, London police and academic institutions dedicated to security
10. More steps to be taken (Cont . . . )
Women must become literate, as education is beneficial for them as well as
their families. The family web is woven around the women. She has to be
up to the mark and educated so that she could fend for herself and her
family during the hour of crisis. The status of women would improve only
if they educate themselves and grab every opportunity to become stronger
and more powerful than before.
The discussion brings a major conclusion to light-the status of women
could be improved by women themselves and nobody else. It is the
modern era of satellites, achievements and technology-based gadget. Why
should women be left behind ?
There should be a better and full understanding of the problems peculiar
to woman, to make a solution of those problems possible. As these
problems centre round the basic problem of inequality, steps should be
taken to promote equality of treatment and full integration of woman in
the total development effort of the country.
The main stress should be on equal work and elimination of
discrimination in employment. One of the basic policy objectives should
be universal education of woman, the lack of which tends to perpetuate
the unequal status quo.
11. The new organization should help decrease the crime against
women drastically
It would help reduce the already over loaded present police system
and act as a helping hand to the existing system
It would also help women lead a socially better and respectable life
