Source : AndhraCafe.com November 22, 2006
Renuka dismisses fears about new ACT.
Hyderabad: Union minister of state for women and child development Renuka Chowdary asserted that recently enacted Protection of Women and Domestic Violence Act, 2005, was not intended to disrupt the family system.
Inaugurating a day-long seminar on the Act organised by the Department of Women Development and Child Welfare, she said that the act would strengthen bondage among family members.
Stating that she had received about one lakh SMSs mostly from men expressing apprehensions on the impact of the Act in the family ties, the minister said such fears were unfounded. Recalling that over one lakh girl-children were killed in the country during last two deades in the form of feticides and infanticide, she said the Act was intended to stop such tendencies.
She suggested the State Government to appoint retired Tahashildars and Anganwadi managers as protection officers under the Act.Minister for School Education N Rajya Lakshmi deplored that highest number of domestic violence incidents are being reported form India. She stressed the need to put an end to such practices.
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