The document proposes a solution to improve women's security and empowerment in India. It involves generating online portals for women to anonymously report problems, appointing and training female government volunteers in rural areas, and including the perspectives of these volunteers and online discussions in the lawmaking process. This is intended to make the legal system more responsive to the real issues women face. Key elements are appointing more women to positions related to women's welfare and law, establishing IT infrastructure for volunteers to interface with legal officials, and organizing training programs to educate rural women and collect their feedback. The goal is to develop more pragmatic laws by directly involving women instead of the current approach that just provides complaint mechanisms.

1. Team Details
Raksha Modi
Khyati Sharma
Gazal Gupta
Niharika Girnar
Vivek Idnani
Walk to Equality: Ensuring Security
and Women Empowerment
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Manthan Topic

2. Current Problem Scenario
Domestic Violence
Immoral Traffic(P) Act
Sexual Harrasment
Molestation
Dowry Death
Kidnapping and Abduction
Rape
Dowry Prohibition Act
Others
Crime against Women (%) Distribution
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Women status over the years is
in bad shape inspite of other
developments.
 Not just rural but urban
educated areas too face similar
problems of women insecurity
and inequality.
Women security is the major
issue, solving which will itself
enhance women equality and
empowerment.

3. Efficient law making process for women security
and their powerful enactment
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Overview of proposed solution:
More job opportunities for women in law sector.
Ease for women to be secure, as dealing out their problems
with women officials will be easy.

4. Model suggesting process of women security and
women empowerment
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5.  The decision makers should
comprise a considerable ratio
of females which would
enhance the understanding
process.
 These officials should be
given an authority in law
making and enactment
process.
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Description Of Process
Appointing female candidates for women welfare posts
through public sector exams.

6.  These portals will be in direct interaction
with public official who are a part of law
making and enactment process.
 The system would give a chance to the
youth to contribute their views on
governmental law process.
 Existing system simply provides women a
platform to lodge complaints, so here we
provide a portal where their identity is
anonymous.
 Not just launching complaints is a
feature,but they are given freedom to
discuss their everyday problems.
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Generation of online portals through which practical life
problems of women can be reported and discussed

7. Including suggestions of female volunteers appointed in
rural areas in law making process for women
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Organizing training program for female government volunteers like- Anganwadi
workers.
Volunteers should be in constant interaction with rural women about their status of
living and ill treatment, if any.
Volunteers be well trained in basic computers, and able to educate rural women
about various social issues.
Inferences made by volunteers during these interactions, mandatorily be uploaded
on regular basis on the public portal.
Thereby considering problems faced by women in rural areas in law making process.

8. Financial requirements for the process
 Organization of training programs.
 Cost of IT equipments like computers, internet for the volunteers.
 Generation and maintenance of public portals.
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Requirement Cost(in lakhs)
IT Equipment 3
Training Organization 0.5
Portal Generation 2
Cost Incurred for the process – per village
(including IT setup at volunteer centers)

9. Risks and Challenges To The System
• Providing advertising space for
education oriented business
on portals would enhance
women empowerment along
with revenue generation.
• Awareness campaigns.
• Providing benefits to
government volunteers so as
they work efficiently.
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Conceptual Risks:
•Right placing of public opinions.
•Government finds the fact viable to
promote more females on women
welfare positions.
Implementation Challenges:
•Unbiased Interaction of youth and
public law making officials.
•Managing group of women
volunteers required for training in
each rural area.
Mitigation Factors:

10. Advantages
 No high infrastructure required, because we are basically aiming
at a common interaction platform.
 Transparency insurance which aims at better enactment of laws
for women which are existing but not well implemented.
 Portal systems for discussing problems among women keeping
their identity concealed is far effective and easy than a manual
process.
 Mass involvement is assured which will result in formation of
pragmatic laws adhering to real world problems for women.
 Youth which is the “so called” driving force is given a chance to
speak out for law making of such serious issues.
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11. Study of inadequacy of existing solutions to the
problem
Solutions which government has already
been implementing and are a failure to
solve the problem:
 Providing female reservations.
 Providing awareness camps for women.
 Providing special education and health
schemes.
 Providing complaint lodging mechanisms
for women, and many more….
Simply educating women as to how they
should secure themselves, is inept. Rather
the law governance should be strong
enough so that problem creators think
before committing crimes. Countries like
USA, provide a safe society for women
with a strong law mechanism. Hence, the
proposed solution may prove efficient.
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Statistics
•Since 1989 there has been
25% increase in crimes with
women.
•According to planning
commission report,85% of
women have somewhere
faced domestic violence.
•Issues like marital rapes are
still not considered crime in
India.

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References:
 Resources from Planning commission of India.
 Statistics from National Crime Report Bureau.
Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and
Girls Initiative -Report of the Baseline Survey Delhi
2010.
Data from women and child Development
Government of NCT of Delhi