The Hindu        20.12.2011

Kalpetta municipality to turn women-friendly

A Correspondent

A people’s initiative, under the auspices of the Kerala
Sasthra Sahithya Parishath (KSSP) district committee and the Kalpetta
municipality, is planning to make the municipality here a women-friendly
civic body.

The initiative aims at tackling
atrocities on women and children and ensuring their status in society,
K. Sachithanandan, project coordinator, said.

Though
the social status of women has increased, they are excluded from the
development plans of the local administrative bodies, T. Sreevalsan,
president of the KSSP unit, said. A development plan for women is
possible only after analysing data on them, especially of the floating
population, he said.

“We will organise a survey on
the floating population on Tuesday by the help of the National Service
Scheme volunteers of the government college here,” he said.

District Collector K. Gopalakrishna Bhatt will inaugurate the programme.

Mr.
Sreevalsan said the survey would count the number of women who reached
the town from different parts of the district for various needs, the
approach of the urban population towards them, and the various issues
facing them in government institutions and private establishments in the
municipal area. The data would help draft a plan and implement the
project soon, A.P. Hameed, municipal chairman, told
The Hindu
.

The project will be implemented with the active
cooperation of women non-governmental organisations, college students,
the Janamaithri police, and Kudumbasree units.

For the survey, a day’s training was provided to the volunteers at the Government Lower Primary school auditorium here recently.