The right to equality as assured in the Constitution is still alien to Indians, Kerala Women’s Commission chairperson P. Satheedevi has said.
She was speaking after inaugurating a district-level seminar on ‘Women empowerment and local self-government institutions’ organised by the commission in association with the district panchayat here on Friday.
Ms. Satheedevi said the Union government that enacted the Women’s Reservation Act that reserves one-third seats in Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies for women as a magnanimous gesture had no intention of implementing it immediately.
