It’s not august 15th! And we are not “happy” it is just Independence Day.

A nation cannot be free until its women are free.

So are we happy? Are we free? Declaring holiday alone is not enough. Freedom is for everyone, is for rich, for poor, for students, for teachers, for parents, for doctors, for scientist, for all the professionals, for educated, for uneducated, for you and for me..

Women in India-a better half of Indian society, today, are becoming the most vulnerable section as far as their safety and security is concerned. When we turn the pages of a newspaper, we come across many headlines reporting cases of sexual assault, molestation, sexual harassment, rapes, trafficking, ill treatment of women in houses, violence against women in remote areas etc. What does this indicate?

Every man should think that their better halves aren’t safe, secure towards the realization of freedom and liberty. It’s unbearable to imagine the plight of women who are sufferers of such crimes. It’s a jolt on the confidence of the women, of society and on our judicial system. Besides it has much of cascading effects which affects her life.

It is not the game that we usually play, “blaming game” for any such incidence and hence has not succeeded to reach to the root of the problem.

As good citizens, we have a fundamental duty to contribute towards bringing an order to ensure dignity and respect for women so that she can also enjoy her human rights and fundamental rights with sense of pride, freedom and confidence. To ensure this at every level the society must work together to give an edge to the solution.

• Give woman a device with GPS technology to find her location to a central control room of police or send messages of her address to nearby locations. But this requires a lot of work relating to scaling the enrollment of women bio data showing her photographs and her permanent or temporary address into a national database system.
• Women police in every area and their continuous monitoring, this also requires installation of CCTV cameras at strategic places, beefing up the police security systems and closely monitoring them.
• Also reforms in our legal system are required such as stringent punishments which are non bailable in nature. This could act as friction to those who perpetrate crime.

So the problem is just not the case of one or two factors, but a sum total of a large number of factors. For this we need to plan more integrative approach to arrive at a solution.

Moral and spiritual inclination of education will impart impetus to curb the sexual desires of men and women and would not let them indulge in committing such heinous crimes. This solution is an ideal solution which would need a more comprehensive support of all the stakeholders of societies.

In other words, we need to take action not by force but by will to make our country more secure and safe for your better halves and bring up reforms in the desired direction so that woman can also enjoy their freedom and rights, and feel more empowered and fearless, as entrusted by the Supreme law of the land.