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10.10 The Commission has framed Guidelines for
ensuring safety of women and sent them to the Law
Enforcement agencies at the major metropolitan cities such
as Mumbai, Chennai, Hyaderbad, Bangalore, New Delhi
etc. for monitoring safety measures for women in BPO’s.
The key guidelines are as follows :
— The NCW has suggested setting up of a complaint
committee to deal with cases of sexual harassment
of women employees, training women in selfdefence,
sensitization of male colleagues, police
verification of car drivers, dropping first and picking
later of women employees as well as installation of
global positioning system to monitor the position
of the vehicles and control their speed.
— There should be police verifications of the drivers.
They must be in uniform and carry identity cards
issued by the company.
— The employees should be provided with laminated
cards with numbers of the transport help desk as
well as of senior officers to be contacted in an
emergency.
Problems relating to NRI marriages
10.11 Regional Workshops on ‘Problems relating to NRI
marriages’ were held at Chandigarh and at
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala which were jointly organized
by NCW and Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs,
Government of India.
10.12 The workshops were successful in bringing various
stakeholders, both governmental and non-governmental
,on one platform and to have a comprehensive discussion
and deliberation on the issues arising in and out of NRI
marriages. Some of the recommendations which emerged
from the workshops are as follows:-
— The Hague Conventions, specially the ones which
are related to the issue of NRI marriage needs to be
examined closely and considered by India for
becoming a signatory.
— Bilateral agreements need to be concluded with
countries where Indian Diaspora is in large number.
— State governments need to ensure the Compulsory
registration of marriage particularly after the
Supreme Court directives in transfer petition 291
of 2005 Smt.Seema vs. Ashwini Kumar.
— Awareness drives for sensitizing parents and girls
regarding the kinds of fraud practised by NRIs and
difficulties in obtaining justice in such cases on
account of inter country jurisdictional issues.
— Special Cell be set up for NRI marriages, at the
state as well as at the Centre.
— Sensitize, educate and involve media to publicize
the issues of NRI marriages, the rights of wives
and children of NRI men, and to take forward the
campaign at the social level.
At the workshop on NRI marriages, Chairperson Dr. Girija Vyas with Chief Minister of
Haryana Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda, at Chandigarh
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