TNPSC Thervupettagam

Tamil Nadu State Policy for Women 2024

February 23 , 2024 275 days 3055 0
  • Chief Minister unveiled the Tamil Nadu State Policy for Women 2024.
  • It aims to ensure social justice for all and provide women access to their rightful entitlements.
  • It will be enabling them to lead a harmonious and peaceful life with equitable opportunities to realise their true potential and aspirations for a sustainable tomorrow.
  • The policy will be implemented over a period of ten years.
  • The state envisages to raise the status of women through awareness, education, gainful employment and capacity building initiatives.
  • The objective of the policy framework is to
    • Enable access to services such as health, education and employment,
    • Enabling conducive conditions that restructure gender norms and behaviour linked changes,
    • Zero tolerance against any kind of discrimination, abuse and violence against women,
    • Empower them to break gender stereotyping and
    • Enable them to excel in every sector.
    • The policy would improve health and nutrition status of adolescent girls and women, besides increasing their participation in the workplace.
  • By promoting digital literacy to bridge the digital gender gap and support women for remunerative placements, the policy also encourages active participation of women in politics.
  • The policy would cover women-headed households (single women, widows, and deserted women), women from oppressed communities, women engaged in vulnerable occupations, differently-abled women, and women in informal and formal sector.
  • A high-level women empowerment committee headed by the Chief Secretary including all the line department shall meet once in six months to review the implementation of the policy and suggest mid-term course corrections.
  • Similarly, the district level monitoring committee headed by the district collector shall overview the implementation once in two months.
  • The policy shall be reviewed after five years.

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