Yogi announces Rs 6,000 annual aid for triple talaq victims

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Yogi announces Rs 6,000 annual aid for triple talaq victims

Thursday, 26 September 2019 | PNS | Lucknow

Stressing that the Uttar Pradesh government was committed to supporting the victims of instant triple talaq, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath  on Wednesday announced an annual assistance of Rs 6,000 to them till their rehabilitation and said they would also get free legal aid from the state government.
The Chief Minister directed the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to review all the cases related to these victims and take action against the police officials who showed laxity in providing justice to these women.
Yogi Adityanath directed the Home, and Minorities and Social Welfare departments to  link these women to government welfare schemes and also chalk out plans for their rehabilitation.  He said such women should be given rights over waqf properties.
He also asked the officials  to formulate a policy so that the cases of these women could be contested by lawyers free of cost and those triple talaq victims who were educated could be absorbed in jobs.
“Educated women should be absorbed in government jobs as per their qualifications while arrangements should also be made for providing them shelter and education under various schemes. These women should be covered under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana or under the Chief Minister Arogya Scheme,” he said.
Yogi Adityanath directed the departments concerned to prepare welfare schemes for the victims. “Proper schemes should be implemented for the overall development of society and no person should feel neglected,” he said.
The Chief Minister heard the trials and tribulations of five Muslim women who were victims of instant triple talaq at a “direct dialogue” programme organised at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan on Tuesday.
Over 300 women had gathered for a dialogue with the Chief Minister, many of them educated and qualified.
Yogi said that he had specially brought these women to the programme where he was launching projects worth over Rs 402 crore so that the beneficiaries could know what the government was doing for them.
Addressing the large gathering of women, the Chief Minister said that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had the courage and will to bring in a law against instant triple talaq.
Admitting that it has been a difficult journey for all the women who have fought against instant triple talaq, the Chief Minister said, “It is even more difficult to carry out this fight in Muslim society where there are so many restrictions. The law against triple talaq will help these women secure their own respect, show them a new path and will be good of society as a whole” he said.
Assuring the triple talaq women that the UP government stood with them, Yogi Adityanath said, “It is easy to break and difficult to join, it is easy to destruct and difficult to construct, hence we have to carry out a constructive fight against this problem.”
The Chief Minister said that men and women were the two wheels of the vehicle of development and just as if one part gets defected the entire vehicle gets affected, similarly if the women were not accorded the respect and justice they deserved, it would impact the whole society.
Referring to the Shah Bano case of 1985, Yogi Adityanath said that the Supreme Court had directed the states five times to end the practice of triple talaq but the then government made laws which went against the welfare of Muslim women, exposing the real faces of the then ruling parties.
“The court continuously gave directions in this regard until finally it declared triple talaq as illegal and unconstitutional,” he added.
Emphasising on the fact that 22 Muslim countries had banned triple talaq, Yogi Adityanath said it was a matter of concern that now men were using social media and WhatsApp to give triple talaq.
He directed the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to not only review the 273 triple talaq cases in the state but also take up issues of bigamy in Hindu society.
 “The government is ready to support all women, whether Hindu or Muslim, who have faced any kind of harassment. The government wants to make it clear that even Hindu men illegally having second wife and harassing them will not be spared and will face the wrath of law,” he said.
Also present on the occasion were Minorities and Social Welfare Minister.

 

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