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            Then, awareness on such matters should be created among the students right from the primary level onwards and their school curriculums should contain lessons on the problems of the women.

            I strongly feel that the political parties and mass organisations in the country should adopt a positive approach to the problem of women and play a leading role in creating awareness about the atrocities committed against women.

14.47 hrs (Mr. Speaker in the chair) The Government should take necessary measures for helping political parties and mass organisations to discharge these responsibilities.

SHRIMATI TEJASWINI SEERAMESH (KANAKAPURA): Sir, I would like to compliment the Chair wholeheartedly because you are always very supportive and always showing a lot of concern and kindness towards the women’s problems in this country.  I would also like to compliment all my sisters who spoke on this very painful issue.  But, at the same time, when we are painfully speaking on this most crucial problem of the girl child, particularly who are entering into the marriages, I can see two extreme examples in the world.  On the one side, Indian origin Shrimati Sunita Williams is enjoying here space walks in the space and who made us all proud and, on the other side, many innocent unfortunate girl children or women are entering into the cruelest practice 7of sati[a54] .

            Sir, here I would like to make some suggestions.  In the last Session, we passed another law, welcoming, very forward looking, very progressive legislation, that is, dealing with domestic violence.  We are already dealing with the problem of child marriage, which is one part and child labour is another part.  So, domestic violence is one, child labour is another issue and child marriage is the third one, but it is not the same problem. 

            I feel you create an institution at the district level, maybe eventually at the level of local self-Government, that is, Gram Panchayat wherein, at least, one person may be elected by the villagers themselves to look into all these issues in a comprehensive manner.  The Ministry will have to play the role of training these people.  Unless you train these people, it is really not going to happen because to accept that it should be sensitized to do this is not really going to work.  Therefore, we must create a new breed or a cadre of officers and people who are actually as sensitized to the issue as is required and then they are going to act at it.  So, I would request the hon. Minister to prepare a list of such officers.

            Sir, the fundamental problem that persists and which actually is manifested into such socio-economic problem is the socio-economic conditions of the people.  Unless we target that in a very effective manner, we are not going to solve this problem.  I was hoping that we will be able to discuss the Five-Year Plan today, but I am told that the Five-Year Plan will not be discussed today because normally the Five-Year Plan targets are not supposed to be met in five years.  They are met much later.  So, probably, we thought, why should we discuss now, we can discuss it even after three years when we will be able to do it.  So, probably the socio-economic conditions should be properly taken into consideration and that is why I thought, it will be discussed.