A member of Uttar Pradesh Mahila Sangathan said that men tend to engage in bad touch.
Lucknow:
Men should not wear women’s clothes or cut women’s hair, the Uttar Pradesh State Women’s Commission has proposed, to protect women from “bad touch” and curb men’s ill intentions.
A radical raft of suggestions, including not allowing men to measure women and installing CCTV cameras, followed a meeting on October 28.
“In the meeting of the Women’s Commission on October 28, it was proposed that the measurements of the clothes worn by women should be taken only by women tailors and that CCTV should be installed in those areas,” said Himani Agarwal, a woman member. The body told PTI on Friday.
He said that Babita Chauhan, chairperson of the Provincial Women’s Commission, proposed the proposal and the members present in the meeting supported it.
“We have also said that in salons, it should be only female barbers who attend to female customers,” Ms Aggarwal said.
Ms Aggarwal added, “We feel that women are abused because of men involved in this type of profession. They (men) try to engage in bad touch.”
“Some men have no good intentions,” he added, “not all men have bad intentions.” Aggarwal said that this is only a proposal for now and the Women’s Commission will request the state government to enact a law in this regard.
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