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Critical Review on Indian Agricultural Policies with Special Reference to Women Farmers
(University of North Bengal, 2021-03) Saha, Bhaswati
Due to out-migration of male labour role, responsibility and participation of women in agriculture at household level are expanding day by day.According to OXFAM report, women, who are economically active in India 80% women engaged in Agriculture and allied activity. But till women’s labour remained unrecognized and invisible in the agricultural sector. In this context, proper planning, efficient policies, play a significant role to carry out agricultural activities effectively. After Independence the government introduced the different initiatives in the form of Five Years Plans, Schemes etc. which emphasized to empower Women farmers with food security and motivated to organise SHGs to enhance access to their technological, entrepreneurial skills and access microcredit facilities. These plans concern with principle aim of reducing gender gap in agricultural and allied sector, ensuring their land rights, eradicating women’s work drudgery. National Commission on Farmers, National Policy on Women farmers have been facing new challenges in the capitalist farming system with traditional patriarchal values. The Women Farmers Entitlement Bill, 2011 focused on land rights, water rights, credit and technological rights. Government of India has taken several steps to improve the overall condition of agriculture in India. Because of unsupportive social system, caste system, and in efficient administrative practices, the policies initiated by the Government are yet to achieve desired goals.
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Use of Technology in Access to Justice
(University of North Bengal, 2020-03) Baladhikari, Surja Kanta
Access to justice is not only concerned with the way the judicial process functions but improving the way disputes are resolved. The process of availing justice showcases that it is time-consuming, unaffordable, unjustifiably combative and inexplicably steeped in opaque procedure and language. Promotion of access to justice includes factors2 of dispute containment, dispute avoidance and legal health promotion. A legal issue must be first recognised and be dealt with by selecting the appropriate service. Justice must reach the non-lawyers who are unaware that there is a situation where a legal problem must be resolved, contained and avoided. Access to justice must spread to use of technology in courts and the way society is involved in the process of administration of justice. Services such as selecting the appropriate service for the legal issue is very important as this determines the efficacy of the judicial process. United Kingdom provides citizens advice service this enables the citizens to handle some of the legal situations on their own when legal services are provided online similarly like that of other online services of the State. These online legal services can be provided in three forms – web-based services, commercial or NGO’s; subscription-based access or alternate business structures or legal publishers. The services which are provided can also be provided where citizens can compare the prices which will be available at competitive rates. Subsequently services can also be streamlined by providing guidance upon procedural and substantive issues. Along with services it is the need of the hour that judges start accepting e-filing, virtual courts, online dispute resolution, digital evidence, deposition of witness online for instance in Jammu and Kashmir where due to geographical limitations citizens might not be able to travel to reach the courts for testifying due to snow or landslides, whether it means they do not have access to justice? The paper critically analyses the role of the stakeholders in the administration of justice put together in providing access to justice to citizens through use of technology.