JAIPUR: The state cabinet has recently approved a new women’s policy. This is the second time that the government comes out with a policy especially for women. The first policy was formulated in 2000.
The government said there were substantial changes in the situation on the ground since the 2000 policy was framed. Besides, the new policy also takes into account the UN sustainable development goals 2030.
The policy noted that the Rajasthan initiative of ‘one stop centre’, Aprajita, set up in Jaipur in 2013 to attend to the grievances of women was adopted nationally as Sakhi, one stop centre, under the Nirbhaya fund. Now, such centres are functioning in all the districts. In such centres services of consultation, legal aid, police help, and protection to victims of violence and abuse. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot had announced in the 2020-21 Budget a new policy for women. The new policy amalgamates the girls policy of 2013.
In the new policy, women have been not only broadly categorised in various groups on the basis of their caste and social status like SC, ST, primitive tribe, nomadic, minority, and economically weaker sections but also of their occupation pattern.Women working in the unorganised sector, migrant workers, silicosis victims, single, destitutes etc.