Chennai: Garbed in windcheaters and wearing dark sunglasses, 15 metropolis techies, most of them in their late 20s, mounted their Royal Enfields and Harleys on Thursday to coast around three,000km within the state. Their undertaking: To snatch eyeballs with their beasts. Their message: To deal with girls with dignity. Their taskmasters: The state govt.
In a step away from its same old birthday party to mark International Women’s day, the social welfare division has joined arms with a city-based bikers’ club, to unfold the word on regulations that give protection to girls, among young men.
Over the process the following 24 days, the bikers will shuttle thru 12 districts within the state that see high crime prevalence in opposition to women and girls. V Amuthvalli, director of social welfare division mentioned, those districts had been known in accordance with occurrence of child marriage, faculty dropout rates and deficient health signs. Some of the districts include Ariyalur, Perambalur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Trichy and Kancheepuram. She mentioned the dept’s field-level officers felt men are continuously at the hours of darkness about regulations and welfare programmes for women. “We discuss gender equality, but most of our programmes are for and via girls. It’s time we trained our men,” she mentioned. The rally used to be inaugurated via social welfare minister V Saroja on Thursday.
Kaushik Murthy, founder of Your BHP Motoring club, whose crew will likely be visiting known govt and private schools, mentioned, the process received’t be mere distribution of pamphlets. The whole function of the workout, he mentioned, is to interact men in girls’s projects. The crew will publish a report to the federal government and likewise speak about and invite feedback on four regulations that seek to give protection to the gender– Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act and Dowry Prohibition Act.
“It’s a problem we've been silent witnesses to for far too long. Every lady should be revered, and the alternate, I feel will have to start with us men,” mentioned Amjad Khan.
In a step away from its same old birthday party to mark International Women’s day, the social welfare division has joined arms with a city-based bikers’ club, to unfold the word on regulations that give protection to girls, among young men.
Over the process the following 24 days, the bikers will shuttle thru 12 districts within the state that see high crime prevalence in opposition to women and girls. V Amuthvalli, director of social welfare division mentioned, those districts had been known in accordance with occurrence of child marriage, faculty dropout rates and deficient health signs. Some of the districts include Ariyalur, Perambalur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Trichy and Kancheepuram. She mentioned the dept’s field-level officers felt men are continuously at the hours of darkness about regulations and welfare programmes for women. “We discuss gender equality, but most of our programmes are for and via girls. It’s time we trained our men,” she mentioned. The rally used to be inaugurated via social welfare minister V Saroja on Thursday.
Kaushik Murthy, founder of Your BHP Motoring club, whose crew will likely be visiting known govt and private schools, mentioned, the process received’t be mere distribution of pamphlets. The whole function of the workout, he mentioned, is to interact men in girls’s projects. The crew will publish a report to the federal government and likewise speak about and invite feedback on four regulations that seek to give protection to the gender– Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act and Dowry Prohibition Act.
“It’s a problem we've been silent witnesses to for far too long. Every lady should be revered, and the alternate, I feel will have to start with us men,” mentioned Amjad Khan.
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