JORHAT, March 12: Women entrepreneurs were more committed in returning loans taken from banks. This observation was made by the Chief Regional Manager of undivided Sivasagar district, United Bank of India, Ramech C Singhal at a celebration of International Women’s Day organized by the bank yesterday.
“Perusing through bank statements, my personal observation has been that women self-help groups are more enterprising and are better able to return bank loans throughout the State,” Singhal said to the women-majority gathering of customers and employees. He hoped that more women, especially urban women would avail of the various loans on offer.
Divyajyoti Saikia, advocate and Zila Parishad member gave a fiery speech on women’s rights and the atrocities faced by women not only in India but all over the world. Touching upon the Domestic Violence Act passed by the Parliament in 2005 Saikia said that it was a powerful weapon in the hands of women. “With the law on her side, women both inside the house and outside could deal with violence,” she said. She, however, said that it should be ensured that the Act was properly implemented.
An interactive session followed the speech with women from all walks of life voicing their opinion on the reasons for inequality between males and females and ways of tackling this. Examples of Sita, Draupadi and Lakshman’s wife, Urmila were cited as instances of male atrocity prevailing in India since ancient times.
Noted writer and women’s activist Bimala Phukan, while summing up the session said that unless women themselves did not change their mindset and organized themselves to fight torture, rape and dowry unitedly there could be no lessening of atrocities and crimes against women. She cited the examples of the trauma of a mother and a five year old schoolgirl who had been raped by either the driver or owner (yet to be established) of the van in which she went to school, the rise of dowry related crimes in the state and the extreme hankering for a male child by a mother who went almost over the brink when she produced a third daughter in the hospital recently, as a society which was not healthy in regard to women.
The vote of thanks was offered by S Choudhury, UBI Regional Manager. THE SENTINEL
“Perusing through bank statements, my personal observation has been that women self-help groups are more enterprising and are better able to return bank loans throughout the State,” Singhal said to the women-majority gathering of customers and employees. He hoped that more women, especially urban women would avail of the various loans on offer.
Divyajyoti Saikia, advocate and Zila Parishad member gave a fiery speech on women’s rights and the atrocities faced by women not only in India but all over the world. Touching upon the Domestic Violence Act passed by the Parliament in 2005 Saikia said that it was a powerful weapon in the hands of women. “With the law on her side, women both inside the house and outside could deal with violence,” she said. She, however, said that it should be ensured that the Act was properly implemented.
An interactive session followed the speech with women from all walks of life voicing their opinion on the reasons for inequality between males and females and ways of tackling this. Examples of Sita, Draupadi and Lakshman’s wife, Urmila were cited as instances of male atrocity prevailing in India since ancient times.
Noted writer and women’s activist Bimala Phukan, while summing up the session said that unless women themselves did not change their mindset and organized themselves to fight torture, rape and dowry unitedly there could be no lessening of atrocities and crimes against women. She cited the examples of the trauma of a mother and a five year old schoolgirl who had been raped by either the driver or owner (yet to be established) of the van in which she went to school, the rise of dowry related crimes in the state and the extreme hankering for a male child by a mother who went almost over the brink when she produced a third daughter in the hospital recently, as a society which was not healthy in regard to women.
The vote of thanks was offered by S Choudhury, UBI Regional Manager. THE SENTINEL
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