Chennai: GCC records that execute the needs of women’s needs with NIRBHAY funds may not be good but young graduates, senior professionals and activists who fight in the polls of urban local agencies in the city do not want their representation to only tokenism.
Fifty percent of seats are provided for women.
From self-defense courses in schools, public toilets with dispensers of sanitary pads for better housing, job opportunities, candidates in Fray promised to encourage women’s welfare and safety in the city infrastructure plan.
Young candidates want to make the city safer for women.
B Varsha, 21, a PG student from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, which fights Ward 107 Aminjaija has often heard the horror stories of the chain of grabbing and groping in his people.
“We have to install CCTV cameras not only in dark spots but also as much as possible,” he said.
Nandhini, a 21-year-old BBA graduate who fought for Naam Tamilar Katchi from the Ward 75 Otter said, “Women must learn to defend themselves physically.
Self-defense must be taught at a very young age.
All schools must have a self-defense class,” he said .
Retired IAS officer P Sívakami nerves for AIDMK at Ward 99 Purasawalkam shows guaranteed jobs, permanent minimum wages, equivalent salary, housing for slum occupants.
“Women in slums mostly work as domestic assistance or in stores.
The government does not give them loans or subsidies to make business.
The self-help group gets 25,000 as a loan, I don’t think they get a big loan like 5 lakh,” he said.
Dr.
Ganthakumari, which was revealed by DMK, at Ward 81 Aljamantur said during his campaign, many women asked for public toilets for women and free skills training for entrepreneurs.
He said the cancer awareness program and free medical camps were also planned.
“We will take their problems.” Activists, however, doubt that 50% reservations for women on the board will translate to gender sensitive policies, because most fierce women may have men in the family run the show.
The call to Mallika Yuvaraj who fought for DMK at Ward 118 saw her husband volunteer to be interviewed in his name.
He spoke later because of the insistence, and said there were no problems related to women in his wand.
K R Renuka, Director, Women’s Development and Research Center, said a workshop they did for Panchayat leaders of women a decade ago seeing husbands want to participate than women.
“Not much has changed.
Women must have the power to make decisions without patriarchal pressure.
They need gender sensitization because many come with certain family values that might not make them sensitive gender naturally,” he said.
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