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Women's organisation to step up pressure
Our Bureau
Hyderabad
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Dec. 19
WOMENPOWERCONNECT (WPC), a group of women organisations and non-governmental organisations formed early this year, has decided to step up lobbying to press for their demands, which include 33 per cent reservation for women.
The Group would also bring pressure on the Government to go for `gender-just budgeting,' allocating enough resources in a variety of areas.
"We will recommend to the Government how to make the budgets more responsive to women in the country. "We don't want the next budget to be gender blind or gender neutral but should actually be gender-just," said Ms Ranjana Kumari, President of WPC.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday she said, the WPC network was inspired by lobbying power of women's groups in Europe. The network would educate women on their rights and how they could bring pressure on policy makers through lobbying.
Another focus area of the WPC was fighting against domestic violence. She said it was quite a huge task in getting the bill enacted into an Act, getting it notified and making it work.
On the rape and murder of a BPO worker in Bangalore, she said that it was horrendous and that the company and Government should take responsibility. "The criminal should be brought to justice immediately," she said.
Despite getting support from all political parties, barring Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, the Women's bill intended to ensure 33 per cent reservation for women had not been tabled yet.
"The male politicians feel threatened with the very idea of women getting political reservations," she said.
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