Mangalore, March 16: Senior advocate and former chairperson of Karnataka Women's Commission Pramila Nesargi on Friday demanded enforcement of a Common Civic Code in India to end discrimination of women on the basis of customs and rituals.
Delivering key-note address at the two-day national seminar on “Women and Social Reforms” at Besant Evening College here, she said women in India were denied equal right during inheritance and distribution of parental property. Advocating a uniform code applicable to both men and women of all religions and communities, she said: “Girls must be empowered and they must be given property rights. Women play the role of taking care of the house and thus must be given the due importance.”
Emphasising the need to formulate a law in this regard Ms Nesargi said: “A law must be brought about to ensure that property is distributed equally in the family”
She said even the laws of marriage are loaded heavily in favour of men by making divorce easier for men. “In Pakistan the marriage is treated like a contract and even before entering the wedlock women decide the alimony quoting amounts even up to Rs 5 crore. This has helped in bringing down The seminar is being organised by the Besant Evening College in association with Mangalore University History Teacher's Association.
Prof. Sulochana D. Rao, principal of the college, inaugurated the seminar.
K Chandrashekhar Shetty, professor, Asha Nayak, professor and advocate, Satish Kumar Shetty, organising secretary and Kudpi Jagadish Shenoy, President Women's National Education Society, were present.
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