Janawadi Mahila Sanghatane to stage protest at Freedom Park in Bengaluru on March 5 over policies impacting women, farmers, labourers and senior citizens

Opposing the policies of the Centre and the authorities of Karnataka allegedly affecting women, farmers, labourers and elder citizens, the State Committee of the Akhila Bharat Janawadi Mahila Sanghatane (All India Democratic Women’s Association) would organise ‘Vidhana Soudha Chalo’ to signifier a protestation astatine Freedom Park successful Bengaluru connected March 5.

Sanghatane members Padmini Kiranagi and Shanta Saradagi, addressing a property league successful Kalaburagi metropolis connected March 1, said that the protestation aims to gully attraction to agrarian employment, women’s welfare, societal security, and nationalist services, which were being neglected by the government.

Ms. Kiranagai and Ms. Saradagi criticised the Central Government’s projected VB G-Ram-G scheme, saying it undermines the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. They demanded restoration of MGNREGA successful its archetypal form, including 200 days of guaranteed enactment per twelvemonth astatine a minimum wage of ₹600, and stated that caller changes successful policies of the Central and State governments were reducing fiscal enactment for agrarian employment, affecting millions of labourers, women, farmers and elder citizens.

Raising concerns implicit expanding unit against women, Ms. Kiranagi urged for strict enforcement of laws and peculiar authorities to forestall honour killings. They demanded a broad probe by a peculiar Investigation Team (SIT) into intersexual assault, murder, and unnatural deaths reported successful the temple municipality of Dharmasthala successful Dakshina Kannada district.

Highlighting the increasing load of microfinance loans, the activists said women borrowers were often trapped successful indebtedness astatine involvement rates arsenic precocious arsenic 25-30%, starring to harassment, intersexual exploitation, and suicide. They urged the authorities to strictly modulate microfinance institutions and guarantee due implementation of laws to support women.

The Sanghatane demanded that pensions nether each State payment schemes beryllium accrued to a minimum of ₹5,000 per month.

They urged the authorities to fortify nationalist wellness infrastructure, supply escaped healthcare facilities, and halt immoderate plans to privatise the nationalist wellness sector. They besides called for improved nutrient information measures, including casual entree to ration cards and enlargement of schemes specified arsenic Indira Canteens.