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Daughters Against Dowry campaign launched

Daughters Against Dowry campaign launched

On the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Ministry Women and Child Development launched here today a campaign 'Daughters against Dowry’ for bringing about a change in daughters' perspective.

Expressing concern over the continuing cases of harassment of women due dowry, Smt. Krishna Tirath, the Minister for Women and Child Development said that law only can not help to get rid off the evil of dowry completely and civil society should also come forward in a big way to run a mass campaign to fight against this evil.

She said that her Ministry has launched this campaign to involve the schools girls to inculcate the will to fight against dowry and to create a strong opinion against it. She informed that the Ministry plans to reach the schools under this campaign to sensitize the girls who would be encouraged to take a pledge to oppose the custom of dowry, in any form. It is expected that the daughters would also sensitize their parents about the issue.

Addressing the participants, the Union Minister of Home Affairs Shri P. Chidambaram said that violence against women and girl child in a civilized society is totally unjustified and unacceptable. He said that informed and educated sections of the society should actively come forward and expose the evil completely and work towards wiping it out. He said that the society may itself evolve fresh ideas with regard to the institution of marriage to abolish dowry. He expressed the hope that younger generation, especially the girls would work to fight the evil of dowry and child marriage.

. Around 500 girl students along with their teachers were sensitized on various aspects of the Dowry Prohibition Act: Issues and Challenges on the occasion. It was followed with A National seminar "Implementation of Dowry Prohibition Act”. Four break-out sessions to have a threadbare discussion on various aspects of the Dowry Prohibition Act like- existing legal framework on dowry and its strengthening, social awareness generation, advocacy and media, medical treatment and care and rehabilitation of dowry victims were held. Experts from various walks of life participated in sessions. On the occasion, the Minister of Women & Child Development also released a booklet on the prohibition of child marriage. It provides information on the provision of the Act and enlists the responsibility of various stakeholders in a simple and user-friendly manner.



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IT IS SAME AS BRIBE. FIRST THE AUTHORITIES MUST PUNISH WHO IS WILLING TO PAY THE DOWRY. NOT WHO IS ASKING AND/OR TAKING THE DOWRY.

THEN ONLY THERE IS A CHANGE IN THE SOCIETY.

THESE MINISTERS THEY CAN MAKE ANY TYPE OF ACTS BUT WILL THEY FOLLOW????????????????????????????

 

K. Rajendra Prakash (Advocate)     29 November 2009

Yes, Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,

those who are willing to pay/give dowry must be punished first.

Bhartiya No. 1 (Nationalist)     03 December 2009

Respected members,

Majority do not want to pay dowry. It generally gets extracted from bride's parent. Price depends upon several factors.  Groom parents who seeks dowry used to be so clever that, unless they receive full payment, they never fix date. Some dowry seekers, used to be cleverer, first they trap brides’ parent, then they exploit as per their plan. The more educated is groom, the more they get dowry. For IAS/IPS it runs in crores especially in higher castes. For doctors, engineers, managers and other officers, it runs in several lakhs. For clerks, army men it is few lakhs. These data can be availed at any Marriage Bureau across north India for all castes, especially in higher castes. There are few who are willing to pay. This is a social evil, which must end. Ultimate sufferers are innocent girls. Imagine the mental pressure of person who is having only daughters. There are parents, who deliberately have stopped their daughters’ higher education, their plea is that they are not capable of searching or can afford a highly educated groom.  


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