The outgoing State Women’s Commission chairperson, Laad Kumari Jain, said women’s security was not a priority for Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
Speaking to reporters here on Sunday, her last day as panel chief, Ms. Jain said she could not say whether atrocities against women had increased ever since Ms. Raje took over, but as a woman Chief Minister, it was expected that women’s security should be a priority in the State. “But it does not appear to be,” she said.
Ms. Jain, who had been appointed by the previous government, said the commission lacks infrastructure, staff and other facilities though it was a constitutional body. The commission has prepared a draft of the Rajasthan State Women Policy-2014 which has been submitted to the government for approval and implementation.
“The policy was made in 2000 but needed amendments for which we made a core committee and identified the focus area. I did try to meet the Chief Minister to hand over the policy but was not given time,” she said.
