Women eating habits like , eating
late food ,inadequate and irregular food had been an established cultural
practice in India for a long time
,irrespective of their economic status. The main reason behind this practice is that,
Men’s health status and longevity
are more important to the family’s
economic security since, they are the
main bread winners .If poor women had to do adjustment with left out food after
feeding the entire family, the economically independent women too neglect their
food requirement due to the pressure of duel responsibility of managing a demanding job and the household management
. Several health economists have recorded
the direct co relation between the poor health status of pregnant women
and the lower birth weight of the newborns . But , this problem can be solved
only when the mindset of men, who generally s do not spare any attention to the
health position of their family women ahs to change . Moreover, women themselves give more importance to
traditions than on preventive health care of them. Health education to create awareness
about the seriousness of this problem
has to become widespread and intensified with the help of primary
health care personnel . After all the
family’s health specially that of the newborns revolves around the mothers
health .
Sunday, 8 January 2017
atrocity against women in Bangalore
I really do not understand how
men in responsible positions make such atrocious statements regarding the
Bangalore city new year incidents . We know that India is a male dominated
society. But it doesn’t mean that all
the acts of men are to be condoned in the name of women who (according to them
) defy Indian culture and traditions . Who
appointed women to be the sole custodian
of the Indian culture and who has
given the right to men to grope, molest and rape any women in public and
private places, just because of their attire or time of physical presence in a
particular place? What type of Indian culture they follow or preserve by these
ignoble acts ? Are they given special
privileges to take liberty with fellow human beings bodies when ever they feel
like? We know that reducing the birth rate in this nation has become the sole responsibility or burden
of women as proved by the vast
difference between tubectomy and
vasectomy sterilisations and the side
effects suffered by women due to birth control tablets . Is preservation
of culture too is added to that list of
responsibilities of women ?
demonetisation
The front page of The Hindu dated
9th December reported about
the catch of huge volume of money (Old and new currency ) and gold during the
raiding of the IT department in one of the influential contractor’s premises in Chennai. All of us surprised along with
the IT officials regarding the source of the new currency possession . Our
relatives in villages frequently complain about their several trips to village
banks and permanent closure of ATMS just to get Rs 2000 in a week The whole nation and particularly the media and
the eminent economists are highlighting
about the hardships faced by common man due to the cash crunch , the resulting
chaos and likely losses to the economy through loss of jobs and
incomes . fall in demand, fall in investments etc., The PM and The FM are coolly
and repeatedly talking about, “ short
term pain and long term gain ” with least sensitivity to the ground realities.
Hope several such raids and seizures of
old and new currency and gold would enlighten them about the nexus between the
bank officials and RBI officials and the
black money holders and the futility of this massive exercise of demonetisation
to unearth black money and directing it towards
government exchequers . The bank managers and employees that includes , even
the security personnel have acquired new status to boss over the ordinary account holders and increase their agony and give VIP treatment
to VIP customers and thereby revealing their nexus in currency transfer of the
new money
demonetisation
It is very strange that, the
government is silent over the seizure of the new Rs 2000 currency in bulk, all
over India when, the raids of IT
department takes place . The nation wants to know about the measures
taken by the government to plug the sources of the leakage such as, the
currency printing press, the Currency chests of the RBI and the banks . When
common man is made to make three trips to the banks in recent weeks ,ever since
Rs 24000 withdrawal is allowed because ,the banks pay this amount in
installments due to non availability of required
currency notes. But ,the law breakers have no problem in getting huge amount of
the new notes . The PM and the ministers take for granted people’s support to
demonetization in spite of hardships. They talk from ivory towers with total
disconnect with ground realities . The
opposition parties or any one who
articulate the sufferings of senior citizens, the disabled, women with infants who are standing in the queue for the last two months
are ridiculed as anti nationals or supporters of the corruption . Maximum
damage is done to the credibility of the banks especially, when each bank
branch, is putting additional restrictions on cash withdrawals and refuse to pay any
other denomination of currency except Rs
2000 notes . What happened to Rs 10, 20,
50 notes ? Are not the account holders reduced to the position of seeking
the bank employees mercy or favor to get
even Rs 100 currency notes ? How long the people are expected to be patient and
tolerate the tall claims made by the BJP spokes persons ?
demonetisation
There are variety of opinions on demonetisation .
According to me the main inconvenience is our inability to draw from our own money
kept with full confidence in bank
accounts of various types. We need cash for variety of purposes and some of
them are very urgent and can be met with hard cash alone . It is very annoying to go to the banks several
times and spend considerable time in the queue and able to draw inadequate
money to meet our needs . Even those with comfortable savings deposited with
banks were reduced to penniless position overnight and this position is
dragging . How long this situation will continue we do not know. The December
31st deadline for ending the
discomforts of the account
holders didn’t stop the hardships which was promised by the PM . The image and
the credibility of the banking system is very severely damaged . Hereafter, People
will keep lot of money at home out of
psychological distress created by the present situation and will open many accounts for the family to
escape from such wretched experience . It is easy for those living in all types comforts and facilities to
preach through media , to exercise
tolerance of hardships for some
more time in national interest. I would like to ask these VVIPS, “ what type of
hardships they suffered due to demonetisation in national interest”?
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