BY: Aakansha singh

EQUALITY IN INDIA

Equality in terms of gender

Equal right to education, live and work for both male and female.

Overall equal status should be provided to both male and female.

Domestic violence, child marriage, exclusion of widows and daughters for land inheritance, purdah system are still a huge problem for many sectors in india.

INCESSANT MURDERERS

FORCED PROSTITUTION

Prostitution racket in Sodavas and Girvas villages of the state's Alwar region uncovered by Headlines Today team.

Oxytocin is injected into girls body to make them reach puberty.

"The families are into prostitution since generations. They have been doing it since 1947," said Om Prakash Gujjar, a sarpanch.

HINDUISM JAINISM BUDHISIM SIKHISM ISLAMCHRISTIANITY

Equality in terms of religionThe preamble of India states that we are a secular

country and promises us the equality of status and opportunity.

But it can be criticised as there are different laws for different religions and additionally once born into a particular religion it is nearly impossible to seperate one’s self from it because religion is our spiritual and legal identity.

•Honor killings are quite common in Haryana and Tamil Nadu when young girls marry somebody outside their caste against her family’s wishes.

•More than 1000 honour killings in india every year.

HONOUR KILLING

The bodies of Sunita Devi (L), 21, and her partner Jasbir Singh, 22, lie on the ground after they were killed by villagers in an “honour killing” in Ballah village in the northern Indian state of Haryana May 9, 2008.

Equality in terms of opportunity

People should be treated irrespective of their  friendship ties to whoever is in power, religion, sex, ethnicity, race, caste, or "involuntary personal attributes" such as disability, age, or sexual orientation.

Opportunity can be with respect to education, job, or status.

An average woman’s pay is less than one-third of the average man’s pay in India.

India achieves a score of 59.4% in terms of gender equality.

A five-year-old girl was married to a 17-year-old boy seven years ago in Dharwad.

After a year, the boy died in an accident and people in the village started treating her as a widow.

“Because she was treated as a widow, she was not allowed to attend any religious ceremonies or social gatherings in the village. Presently, she is 12 and does domestic work at her in-laws place. Also, she is not allowed to go home.”

Its high time for

REAL EQUALITY.