The central government revoked passports of 45 NRI men for abandoning wives and fleeing off, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has said. The Integrated Nodal Agency, chaired by Rakesh Srivastava, a secretary in the women and child development ministry, has been issuing Look-Out Circulars to absconding husbands in cases of NRI marriages and […]
The Minister of Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, recently said that rape evidence kits would be in place at police stations by the end of July 2018. She also talked about a centralised list of offenders that will be prepared to keep the general public informed. The Minister was at an event laying the […]
With the outrage across the country  over the rapes in Kathua and Unnao, the central government is now in the process to amend the law to introduce death penalty in child rape cases below 12-year of age. The amendments to the existing law will ensure maximum punishment of death penalty in child rape cases, where the survivor […]
The Government is considering making changes to the law to ensure stricter actions against cyber-crimes which target women such as ‘revenge porn videos.’ The step was taken by the government in the light of increasing crime incidents against women in social media. The Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) is particularly focusing on cyber […]
Union Minister Maneka Gandhi is leaving no stone unturned to elevate the status of children with permanent disabilities. She has reportedly written a letter to the Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, Thaawarchand Gehlot urging him to set up special homes for such children in states, which can be run by NGOs under the supervision of […]
So Maneka Gandhi is trending again. The last she was in news was for her suggestion of making pre-natal sex determination compulsory, as in her opinion, it would have helped the government keep a track of expected female child births in India and hence control imbalances in the sex-ratio. This suggestion received some major flak, […]
