Women and Child Development Department, under the umbrella of District Panchayat, to organize ‘Pendayalangal’ to study the status of women to understand the status, problems and needs of women at local self-governance level and to make local bodies gender neutral is ready. Friendship.
The study, which will examine the social, financial, emotional, physical and health status of women, will help in devising novel projects in the district to benefit them.
The study will be conducted among women aged 18-60. The samples will be collected from 73 gram panchayats, four municipalities and the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.
Trained data enumerators have been deployed to conduct the study. They will conduct a field-level study through an online web application, collate the data at the district level and generate a report that will help in formulating development activities in the years to come.
Food and Civil Supplies Minister GR Anil will inaugurate the project on Monday in a function organized under the chairmanship of District Panchayat President D. Sureshkumar. District Collector Geromik George will be the chief guest. On the same day training will be organized for the officers leading the project.
District Women and Child Development Officer Sabina Begum S. said that only a few projects like appointment of school counselors, formation of ‘jagrut samitis’ (vigilance committees) and gender awareness programs were conducted in the area of women’s development in the district.
The study was an attempt to implement a novel program. On the basis of the study, programs will be prepared to solve the specific problems of women. These would include creating awareness before something untoward happens and strengthening redressal mechanisms in the form of awareness committees in case something untoward happens. Training for women who were unemployed and supporting them with necessary equipment and other infrastructure to earn their livelihood and setting up gender help desks were some of the other programs envisaged. He said that formation of cultural groups of women, art and cultural competitions, get-togethers are also in the pipeline.