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Why   are   atrocities   on   women   much   higher   in   India?


    Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Why atrocities on women much higher in India?
  3. How can citizens of India reduce atrocities on women?
  4. Non-solutions


Introduction

There are indeed cases of atrocities on women in US/West. But atrocities on women in India is comparitively speaking far more severe.

The purpose of this article is to enumerate and discuss ONLY those factors
  1. which decrease atrocities, are present in West, and absent in India
  2. which increase atrocities, present in India, and absent in West
The purpose of this article is NOT to enumerate factors that are present/absent in BOTH countries. Hence a large number of factors, such as moral values, history, greed etc will get dismissed as non-issues. Why? Becuase greed is present in US/West as well as India. And moral values are at same level in India as well as West.



Factors why atrocities on women are much higher in India

    Atrocities outside family is higher due to following reasons:

  1. India has fewer courts and policemen than India needs, and they are NOT well equipped with logistics for reasonable efficiency. Why do have have fewer and ill-equipped courts/policemen? Mainly becuase our leaders, officers and intellectuals insist on policies that diverts ALL the tax money for colleges, universities, art, culture, litrature, highways etc and leaves NOTHING for courts/police. For details, please click here for details.

  2. The judges, govt lawyers and policemen in India are highly defunct, corrupt and nexused. This has made courts defunct, and few criminals get punished. As a result, the criminals get bolder and bolder, and so all sorts of crimes are increasing, including harassment on women.

    Atrocities inside family is higher due to following reasons:

  3. Since harassment on single women living alone is higher in India, the woemn inside families hesitate in moving out of family unless tortures inside family are simply intolerable. This creates a wrong advantage for other members of families such as husband, in-laws etc : they know that since the situation outside is very hostile, the woman in family is very unlikely to walk out, and so they are less hesitant in inflicting tortures. In US/West, since the courts are large in number and less corrupt/nexused, the single women living alone are much safer and face negligible harassment. And so a woman in US/West is less hesitant in walking out of family. Hence, family members also hesitate in resorting to mental/physical tortures.

  4. The women in India are financially speaking MUCH weaker than women in US/West.

  5. In India, finding a small apartment in a safe neighborhood for a cheap rent is next to impossible in city as well as villages. eg in city where I live, Ahmedabad, one can find 50sqm apt for Rs 2000/month (oct-2004 prices) in a safe area, but in the same area, 25sqm apts simply DO NOT exist. Hence in such area, no one can find an apt for about Rs 1000/month rent. In short, lack of cheap small rentals make it difficult for woman to walk out or even threaten a walk out, and hence higher level of atrocities in families.

Hence more atrocities on women in India compared to the West.



How can citizens of India reduce atrocities on women?

Trivial.

  1. Steps 1-3: The citizens should force MLAs, MPs and District Panchayat Members to create procedures that would enable citizens to pass laws in District Panchayats, Assemblies and Parliament. Please read LM.01 to see the procedure using which citizens can pass laws in District Panchayats and City Councils. Please read LM.02 to see the procedure using which citizens can pass laws in Assembly. And please read LM.03 to see the procedure using which citizens can pass laws in Parliament.

  2. Steps 4-18 : The citizens of India, using LM.01-03 can enact procedures EAS.01-15. These procedures will create an income for EVERY citizen, including ALL women, from the rent/royalty that Govt gets Govt-owned natural resources. This will increase the financial strength of women making it easier for them to fight against atrocities, and also walking out of family in case of demestic atrocities.

  3. Steps 19-23 : The citizens of India, using LM.01-03 can enact procedures CT.05-09. These procedures will create Jury System in Quasi-Courts, Lower Courts, High Courts and also the Supreme Courts, The Jurors DO NOT have nexuses with lawyers, criminals etc and so punishments in cases of atrocity will actually occur. This will reduce external atrocities on women.

  4. Step 24-26 : The citizens of India, using LM.01 can enact procedures ID.04 , TX.04 and CIVIL.02. The procedure ID.04 will improve the accuracy of land/building-ownership records, and thus improve liquidity in land/building. TX.04 reduces stamp duty to 1% from existing 12% to 1%, and replaces it by a wealth tax. And the procedure CIVIL.02 improves efficiency in renting, evicting etc. These 3 procedures increase the availibility of cheap small rental flats. This will easen the life of a single woman who is staying alone, and has 0-1-2 kids, and less money to spare.

These TRIVIAL steps will reduce atrocities on women. Please note that it is not a requirement that citizens must take all 20-25 steps, and ONLY then atrocities on women will reduce. The first three steps on their own do NOT reduce atrocities --- they only reduce the cost of taking next 20-25 steps. And each step reduces atrocities by a fraction, irrespective of other steps are taken or not. Togather, they will reduce the atrocities to near zero. Except steps1-3, there is no significant dependency.



Non solutions : steps even if taken, will NOT reduce frauds

Following are non-solutions i.e. steps even if taken by govt, will NOT reduce frauds
  1. Improving moral character : It is impossible to improve moral character of atrocious persons.

  2. Education : Education has indeed reduced atrocities, but that is ONLY becuase education has sometimes improved financial strength. When education could NOT improve financial strength, it has failed to rescue the weak. So focus should be on increas ing the financial strength, and less on the education.

  3. Appointing various commissions : like human rights commission, national women commissions etc. Unless these commissions are Jury based, the powerful and habitual atrocious simply form nexuses with them, and there will no effective reduction in atrocities.

  4. Raising awareness : Unless courts imprison/fine the atrocious persons, only awareness about atrocities will increase and there will be no decrease in atrocities.

There are simply too many non-solutions to re-butt. All these non-solutions have become popular becuase of nexuses of intellectuals with those who benefit.



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