Dearest Government of Uttarakhand,
Your recent decision to cursorily stop womenfolk from working after 6 p.m. smacks of sheer arrogance, indifference to the plight of women who are forced to step out of the sacrosanct four walls of the house in order to supplant and sustain the family income and above all prove that they are eminently capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts when it comes to equality within the workplace...........
This decision not only reveals a sexist, regressive, medieval and contemptuous mindset but is also a convenient way of bypassing and shirking the onerous responsibility of ensuring the safety and security of womenfolk who venture out on the streets of the capital, and other cities and towns..........
Will the government that has conjured up this deplorable decision or more specifically those "enlightened" folks whose minds have engineered this laughable decision take upon themselves the onus of providing for the families and kith and kin of the womenfolk who are affected by this nonsensical decision or better still provide them with alternative sources of income that enable them to earn a honest livelihood and step out from their respective offices by the government imposed curfew hour of 6 pm................
Where will those enterprising entrepreneurs who have pumped in crores of rupees into setting up and establishing such business concerns that begin their workday around or after 6 pm go, a significant majority of these organisations are equal opportunity employers where both sexes work shoulder to shoulder, will the government offset the losses caused to such economic ventures until such time that the employers manage to train a new set of employees to take the places of those displaced by this decision or then supplement their bottom lines by subsidising them to the required extent until they recruit an adequate number of people to replace those whom they have lost on account of this decision that defies all logic...........
Why don't you concentrate your energies on modernising and tuning up your police force and other security agencies, providing them with the latest communication and investigative implements and methods, recruit an adequate number of people to take care of the safety and security related needs of fifty percent of your population, usher in police reforms that will put an end to all the sexist and regressive mindsets that seem to have become the exclusive domain of many a police force over a period of time........
Whatever happened to that oft repeated promise of necessarily deploying at least a minimum of two police women at every existing and proposed police station and setting up prompt and quick rescue teams expressly meant to cater to the needs to the victims of sexual crimes, will the helpline that was supposed to be set up so that women folk could summon help whenever required ever see the light of the day or then will all these and other measures that need to be initiated to usher in a sense of safety and security amongst the hapless womenfolk be sacrificed at the altar of expediency and brushed under the carpet just because you have taken an executive decision that prohibits women from frequenting work places after 6 pm...........
One certainly expected better from a modern day government that has vowed to usher India into the next century with cutting edge reforms and active participation and partnership of women in the processes, shame Government of Uttarakhand, shame on you for displaying a mindset that would have certainly been in place during the Old Stone Age, modern environments and modern day living calls for progressive mindsets that equate men and women on the same plane and provide them with opportunities on an equal footing...........
Cultivating such a mindset and manner of doing things forthwith as doing so would only be in your best interests, do so because the Indian woman has awaken from her deep slumber at long last and will not hesitate to confine you to the dustbins of history and deep dark dungeons where you rightfully belong, pay heed to this warning forthwith and immediately withdraw this joke of an executive order before you are confined to the opposition benches of the state legislature for more years than you can count........
Your recent decision to cursorily stop womenfolk from working after 6 p.m. smacks of sheer arrogance, indifference to the plight of women who are forced to step out of the sacrosanct four walls of the house in order to supplant and sustain the family income and above all prove that they are eminently capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts when it comes to equality within the workplace...........
This decision not only reveals a sexist, regressive, medieval and contemptuous mindset but is also a convenient way of bypassing and shirking the onerous responsibility of ensuring the safety and security of womenfolk who venture out on the streets of the capital, and other cities and towns..........
Will the government that has conjured up this deplorable decision or more specifically those "enlightened" folks whose minds have engineered this laughable decision take upon themselves the onus of providing for the families and kith and kin of the womenfolk who are affected by this nonsensical decision or better still provide them with alternative sources of income that enable them to earn a honest livelihood and step out from their respective offices by the government imposed curfew hour of 6 pm................
Where will those enterprising entrepreneurs who have pumped in crores of rupees into setting up and establishing such business concerns that begin their workday around or after 6 pm go, a significant majority of these organisations are equal opportunity employers where both sexes work shoulder to shoulder, will the government offset the losses caused to such economic ventures until such time that the employers manage to train a new set of employees to take the places of those displaced by this decision or then supplement their bottom lines by subsidising them to the required extent until they recruit an adequate number of people to replace those whom they have lost on account of this decision that defies all logic...........
Why don't you concentrate your energies on modernising and tuning up your police force and other security agencies, providing them with the latest communication and investigative implements and methods, recruit an adequate number of people to take care of the safety and security related needs of fifty percent of your population, usher in police reforms that will put an end to all the sexist and regressive mindsets that seem to have become the exclusive domain of many a police force over a period of time........
Whatever happened to that oft repeated promise of necessarily deploying at least a minimum of two police women at every existing and proposed police station and setting up prompt and quick rescue teams expressly meant to cater to the needs to the victims of sexual crimes, will the helpline that was supposed to be set up so that women folk could summon help whenever required ever see the light of the day or then will all these and other measures that need to be initiated to usher in a sense of safety and security amongst the hapless womenfolk be sacrificed at the altar of expediency and brushed under the carpet just because you have taken an executive decision that prohibits women from frequenting work places after 6 pm...........
One certainly expected better from a modern day government that has vowed to usher India into the next century with cutting edge reforms and active participation and partnership of women in the processes, shame Government of Uttarakhand, shame on you for displaying a mindset that would have certainly been in place during the Old Stone Age, modern environments and modern day living calls for progressive mindsets that equate men and women on the same plane and provide them with opportunities on an equal footing...........
Cultivating such a mindset and manner of doing things forthwith as doing so would only be in your best interests, do so because the Indian woman has awaken from her deep slumber at long last and will not hesitate to confine you to the dustbins of history and deep dark dungeons where you rightfully belong, pay heed to this warning forthwith and immediately withdraw this joke of an executive order before you are confined to the opposition benches of the state legislature for more years than you can count........
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