CHENNAI: Garbed in windcheaters and wearing darkish sunglasses, 15 metropolis techies fixed their two-wheelers on Thursday to coast around three,000km within the state. Their challenge: To grab eyeballs with their beasts. Their message: To treat women with dignity. Their taskmasters: The state executive.
In a step clear of its same old celebration to mark International Women’s day, the social welfare division has joined hands with a city-based bikers’ membership to spread the phrase on laws that offer protection to women, among young males.
Over the process the following 24 days, the bikers will trip to 12 districts within the state that see high crime towards women and girls. V Amuthvalli, director of social welfare division, mentioned 12 blocks were recognized in every of those districts. “We took into consideration various parameters, including incidence of kid marriage, faculty dropout charges among ladies and poor health signs,” she mentioned. Some of the districts come with Ariyalur, Perambalur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Trichy and Kancheepuram. She mentioned the dept’s field-level officials felt males are continuously in the dark about laws and welfare programmes for ladies. “We speak about gender equity, however maximum of our programmes are for and through women. It’s time we trained males on the best way to treat women,” she mentioned.
The motorcycle rally was inaugurated through social welfare minister V Saroja on Thursday.
Kaushik Murthy, founder of Your BHP Motoring membership, mentioned his crew would discuss with executive and personal colleges within the blocks recognized through the social welfare division. “We don’t need to just distribute pamphlets to them. We need to perceive with out judging why they do what they do and then be able to deal with it,” mentioned Murthy whose membership has around 100 bikers as individuals. The complete function of the workout, he mentioned, is to engage males in women’s projects. The crew can even post a report to the federal government in keeping with their interplay with kids in these colleges.
In addition, they're going to additionally talk about and invite comments on four laws that seek to give protection to women and girls – The 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.
Almost all 15 of those bikers are device engineers of their late 20’s who've taken a damage from paintings to be a part of the state challenge. “We are doing it as it’s a problem now we have been silent witnesses to for a ways too long. Every woman deserves to be revered. And the change I feel should get started with us males,” mentioned Amjad Khan.
In a step clear of its same old celebration to mark International Women’s day, the social welfare division has joined hands with a city-based bikers’ membership to spread the phrase on laws that offer protection to women, among young males.
Over the process the following 24 days, the bikers will trip to 12 districts within the state that see high crime towards women and girls. V Amuthvalli, director of social welfare division, mentioned 12 blocks were recognized in every of those districts. “We took into consideration various parameters, including incidence of kid marriage, faculty dropout charges among ladies and poor health signs,” she mentioned. Some of the districts come with Ariyalur, Perambalur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Trichy and Kancheepuram. She mentioned the dept’s field-level officials felt males are continuously in the dark about laws and welfare programmes for ladies. “We speak about gender equity, however maximum of our programmes are for and through women. It’s time we trained males on the best way to treat women,” she mentioned.
The motorcycle rally was inaugurated through social welfare minister V Saroja on Thursday.
Kaushik Murthy, founder of Your BHP Motoring membership, mentioned his crew would discuss with executive and personal colleges within the blocks recognized through the social welfare division. “We don’t need to just distribute pamphlets to them. We need to perceive with out judging why they do what they do and then be able to deal with it,” mentioned Murthy whose membership has around 100 bikers as individuals. The complete function of the workout, he mentioned, is to engage males in women’s projects. The crew can even post a report to the federal government in keeping with their interplay with kids in these colleges.
In addition, they're going to additionally talk about and invite comments on four laws that seek to give protection to women and girls – The 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.
Almost all 15 of those bikers are device engineers of their late 20’s who've taken a damage from paintings to be a part of the state challenge. “We are doing it as it’s a problem now we have been silent witnesses to for a ways too long. Every woman deserves to be revered. And the change I feel should get started with us males,” mentioned Amjad Khan.
Women's Day: Techies begin bike rally from Chennai to spread a message
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