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Gender justice missing link of nation's progress: PM

| @indiablooms | Feb 22, 2020, at 08:06 pm

New Delhi/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday, while inaugurating International Judicial Conference here, affirmed that no country can develop without gender justice.

"India is a nation which has granted opportunities to women. Indian Government has done its best to implement the laws relating to the issue. Take the example of triple talaq," Mr Modi said, inaugurating the forum at the Supreme Court.

Expressing gratitude to Indian judiciary, the Premier said it has balanced the issue of development and environment through Public Interest Litigations. "Law is supreme and people have strong faith in judiciary. Rule of law is the basis of social transformation."

In a first, enrolment of girls in educational institutions in India is more than boys, the PM said, adding that it is on account of successful programmes such as 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.'

Chief Justice of India Sanjay Arvind Bobde affirmed that founding fathers of this post-colonial country studied various models of Constitutions from all directions.

There were former dominions of the British Empire, including Ireland and Australia, where the British system of governance was adopted such as in India.

The Constitution of India, therefore, synthesised the perfect blend of all that came before it and tailored it to fit this country’s diversity and thought. At the heart of the Constitution was the individual and the rights of individual were recognised as 'fundamental,' CJI Bobde asserted.

Attorney General K K Venugopal underlined that Apex Court has read in "right to livelihood" as part of "right to life" under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution.

The Supreme Court has also elevated the entitlement of elementary education as part of right to life. This declaration of Apex Court, the AG observed, was accepted by the legislature which incorporated Article 21A in Indian Constitution.

 

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