Lok Sabha Question No. 590 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-04
Subject: Financial Empowerment of Women
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Sanjay Bhatia

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. + 590

TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.02.2022

## FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN

- +590.  SHRI SANJAY BHATIA

Will the Minister of Women and Child Development be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of steps taken by Commission /National Commission for Women for better condition and financial empowerment of women during the period of its recent report;
- (b) whether  the Commission  has  completed  tours  to  all the States/Union Territories  and  prepared  gender  profile  for  the  assessment  of  condition  of women and their empowerment and if so, the details thereof,
- (c) whether a large number of complaints have been received by NCW or taken suo-moto cognizance  in this regard for accelerating justice in certain cases and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether  commission  has  reviewed  the legislations like child marriage, sponsored  legal  awareness  programmes,  Parivarik  Mahila  Lok  Adalat   and Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, PNDT Act, 1944, Indian Penal Code, 1860 and National  Commission for Women Act,  1990  during  their  tours  particularly  in Haryana; and
- (e) if so, the details and current status thereto?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

- (a)    National Commission for Women has taken various initiatives towards financial empowerment of women which include financial literacy and education, empowering women in rural India, country-wide capacity building  and personality  development, online training programme to digitally train aspiring women entrepreneurs, suggesting measures for women in agriculture sector, promoting the cause of digital literacy for creating a safe cyber space for women and also to address and devising strategies to tackle cyber violence against women and girls.
- (b) The Commission has carried out work relating to preparation of  gender profile in respect of  States and Union Territories to gauge how women's life has changed and also  to  measure progress over the time period. The Commission visited all States and Union Territories except Lakshadweep to assess the status of women.
- (c)   Data  relating  to   complaints  for  deprivation  of  rights/violence  against  women registered  in the Commission under various categories during the last three years and current year (till 25.01.2022) is given at Annexure-I. The Commission has also taken  suo  moto  cognizance  of  large  number  of  cases/  instances  of  violation/ deprivation of the rights of women. The details of such cases for the last three years and  current financial year till 25.01.2022 is given below:

|   S.N. | Financial Year   | Total No. Cases        |
|--------|------------------|------------------------|
|      1 | 2018-2019        | 175                    |
|      2 | 2019-2020        | 206                    |
|      3 | 2020-2021        | 252                    |
|      4 | 2021-2022        | 204 (up to 25.01.2022) |

(d) and (e)  In accordance with the mandate of the National Commission for Women Act,  1990,  the  Commission  reviews  laws,  undertakes  specific  studies  relating  to laws, conducts seminars/conferences/workshops, etc  and makes recommendations on enacting new legislations as well as amendments to the existing laws, affecting and concerning women. NCW has been conducting Legal Awareness Programmes in  colleges/  Universities  all  over  the  country  to  spread  awareness on  various  laws relating to women. NCW is also conducting Gender Sensitisation Programmes and Capacity Building Programmes for Police Personnel on the laws relating to women.

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Annexure-I State  wise  number  of  complaints  for  deprivation  of  rights/violence  against

## women registered with NCW

|   S.No | State                       | 2019   | 2020   |   2021 |   2022 (till 25.01.2022) |
|--------|-----------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------------------------|
|      1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 6      | 4      |      2 |                        0 |
|      2 | Andhra Pradesh              | 131    | 158    |    206 |                        7 |
|      3 | Arunachal Pradesh           | 1      | 6      |      6 |                        0 |
|      4 | Assam                       | 55     | 85     |     90 |                        7 |
|      5 | Bihar                       | 768    | 1,072  |   1457 |                      100 |
|      6 | Chandigarh                  | 53     | 52     |     64 |                        3 |
|      7 | Chhattisgarh                | 95     | 154    |    165 |                       10 |
|      8 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli      | 3      | 7      |      4 |                        0 |
|      9 | Daman & Diu                 | 1      | 4      |      3 |                        0 |
|     10 | Delhi                       | 1,873  | 2,636  |   3336 |                      199 |
|     11 | Goa                         | 13     | 15     |     24 |                        1 |
|     12 | Gujarat                     | 129    | 207    |    265 |                       22 |
|     13 | Haryana                     | 1,144  | 1,265  |   1460 |                       84 |
|     14 | Himachal Pradesh            | 48     | 94     |    135 |                        7 |
|     15 | Jammu and Kashmir           | 23     | 79     |    157 |                       13 |
|     16 | Jharkhand                   | 209    | 335    |    454 |                       38 |
|     17 | Karnataka                   | 300    | 467    |    538 |                       55 |
|     18 | Kerala                      | 85     | 145    |    152 |                        8 |
|     19 | Ladakh                      | -      | -      |      2 |                        0 |
|     20 | Lakshadweep                 | -      | 1      |      1 |                        0 |
|     21 | Madhya Pradesh              | 560    | 877    |   1105 |                       61 |
|     22 | Maharashtra                 | 644    | 1,188  |   1504 |                       95 |
|     23 | Manipur                     | 4      | 7      |      3 |                        0 |
|     24 | Meghalaya                   | 6      | 8      |      7 |                        0 |
|     25 | Mizoram                     | 1      | 1      |      3 |                        0 |
|     26 | Nagaland                    | 2      | 1      |      1 |                        0 |
|     27 | Odisha                      | 92     | 138    |    176 |                       13 |
|     28 | Pondicherry                 | 12     | 10     |     14 |                        2 |
|     29 | Punjab                      | 315    | 420    |    544 |                       28 |
|     30 | Rajasthan                   | 764    | 907    |   1130 |                       63 |
|     31 | Sikkim                      | 3      | 1      |      4 |                        1 |
|     32 | Tamil Nadu                  | 290    | 464    |    581 |                       44 |
|     33 | Telangana                   | 155    | 220    |    238 |                       18 |
|     34 | Tripura                     | 7      | 6      |     15 |                        1 |
|     35 | Uttar Pradesh               | 11,358 | 11,872 |  15828 |                      986 |

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