Modi inaugurates Digital India – Barmer bans girls from using mobile phones

#narendramodi #digitalindia #khappanchayat #barmer It defies imagination that a khap panchayat in Barmer has issued a diktat – by this diktat, girls of the village are banned from using mobile phones and social media. The girls should not to wear jeans and bridegrooms must wear dhoti when getting married.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 2 July 2015.

At a time when the mobile phone has become an integral part of our lives and when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Digital India to ensure that the electronic revolution reaches the remotest village, the decision of the Khap of Barmer is strange.
This is all the more so because Barmer is in Rajasthan which is a BJP ruled state.
However, the Prime Minister’s Digital India project will take a severe beating if such primitive mindset continues to prevail. The PM wants the entire country to get high speed internet, but if the Barmer example expands, the villages will not enjoy the light of the new dawn.
Of course, this panchayat has taken some good decisions also – these are saying no to child marriages, sending all children to school, and ban on liquor. But, the ban on mobile phones for girls is difficult to digest. The mobile phone today has become an identity, the mobile number is necessary in innumerable day-to-day transactions like in banks.
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