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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Ban jeans, cell phones and wear dupatta to stop rapes

The right-wing Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha has blamed vulgar clothes for being responsible for rapes. It has demanded that, in order to check the growing incidents of rape, a dress code for girls should be introduced in schools and colleges. Also, cell phones should be banned on their premises with a view to check increasing obscenity. It should also be compulsory for girls to wear ‘dupatta’.
The general notion appears to be that vulgar clothes lead to incidents of rape and, in order to curb increasing obscenity in society, schools and colleges should follow a particular dress code. The clothes should cover the body and not be indecent. In addition, there should be a ban on girls wearing tight jeans and tops.
Another aspect is the live-in relationships. In the opinion of these groups, the Indian culture is getting affected due to such relationship and hence there should be a law prohibiting this tendency. The mentality of society is, apparently, not mature enough to give unrestricted freedom to the youths.
Those who want such measures to be introduced should be more radical in their thinking because our ancient cave sculptures of Khajuraho, Ajanta, Ellora etcetera reveal the female form in all its glory with scant clothing. Should these places be made out of bounds for the young ones?
Other influences are the Bollywood movies where the media goes ga-ga over earnings of movies in hundreds of crores of rupees – and, for such money to roll in, the credit should go to the bare-all dances numbers better known as item songs that accompany provocative body gestures. Should they also not be banned?
We are inviting FDI in many areas and these will bring with them foreign cultures that could the minds of the youth – in order to preserve our culture, should we not rethink on allowing FDI? Moreover, rapes are not restricted to school and college going girls but also working women, and housewives.