Lok Sabha Question No. 347 (STARRED), answered on 2015-12-23
Subject: Drudgery reducing Technologies for Women
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: MEENAKASHI LEKHI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.347 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23/12/2015

## DRUDGERY REDUCING TECHNOLOGIES FOR WOMEN

## *347. SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AN D TECHNOLOGY ÉÊ´ÉYÉÉxÉ A´ÉÆ |ÉÉètÉÉäÉÊMÉBÉEÉÒ àÉÆjÉÉÒ be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the technologies available for reducing drudgery of women in housewor manual labour and agriculture;
- (b) the measures taken by the Government for the introd uction of technologies for use at th ground level;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  any  scheme  which  specifically  address  the  problem drudgery of women; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR MINIS TRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES (DR. HARSH VARDHAN)

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- (a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House

STATEMENT  AS REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  347  FOR  23/12/2015  REGARDING  ''DRUDGERY  REDUCING TECHNOLOGIES FOR WOMEN".

- (a) Mad am, s everal technologies are available for reducing drudgery for women engaged in housework,  manual  labour  and  agriculture.  The  technologies  (primarily  improvised  t available  for  reducing  drudgery  in  house  work  are hanging  cleaner  grader,  revolving  milking stool  &  stand,  groundnut  decorticator,  single  &  double  pot  trolley  for  carrying  water wal ut cracker, walnut peeler, cotton wick making machine, cow dung collector, fodder collector churner,  continuous  chapati  making  machine,  continuous  vada  making  machine,  cashew  n decorticator, etc.    On the manual labour front, Asu making machine for Pochampally sarees , stencil cutting device for hand embroidery design, incense stick making machine, bamboo making  machine,  cotton  stripper  machine,  parboiled  paddy  and  oil  seed  turner,  simple de- husker,  etc.  are  some  of  the  technologies  ava ilable  for  reducing  the  drudgery.  Severa technologies have also been developed for reducing drudgery of women in agriculture like thresher - cum - winnower, four row paddy drum seeder, trishul weeder, cono weeder, ring cutter plucking vegetables, ha ndle operated maize sheller, tea leaves plucking kit, eared cutter fo harvesting, hand ridger for making furrows, twin wheel hoe, sugarcane bud chipper, grou digger, and so on.
- (b) National Innovation Foundation -India, an autonomous organiz ation of Department of Science and Technology (DST), identifies technological innovations, including those for drudgery of women, and attempts to diffuse these at the ground level during the biannual shodh yatras " in different rural areas of the country. Department of Scientific and Industrial Resear (DSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, also disseminate technologies developed by scientific establishments  for  reduction  of  drudgery  of  women.  In  addition,  various  Central  and Agricultural Universities  facilitate  development  as  well  as  dissemination  of  location - specific technologies  developed  at  regional  level  for  reducing  the  drudgery  of  women.    Directo Research  for  Women  in  Agriculture,  Bhubaneswar      and  Central  Institute  for  Agric ultural Engineering,  Bhopal  also  strive  for  penetration  of  technologies  developed  in  agricu grassroots level through All India Coordinated Programmes (AICP).
- (c) Yes,  Madam .

(d) DST  is  implementing  a  Scheme  "Science  and  Technology  for  Women"  to promote development  and  adaptation  of  location - specific,  need - based  ap propriate  technologies  besides transfer of proven technologies and demonstration of live tec hnology models which encompass reduction  of  drudgery  of  women.  A  scheme  titled  'Technology  De velopment  and  Utilization Programme  for  Women  (TDUPW)'  is  operational  in  DSIR  for  design  and  development  of products for reduction of drudgery and empowerment of women. Indian Council for Agricultu Research  also  has  "All  India  Coordinated  Research  Proje cts"  for  developing  improved agricultural tools/ implements to reduce drudgery of women.

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