Women Empowerment in Pune

The principle of gender equality is enshrined in the Indian Constitution in its Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Directive Principles. The Constitution not only grants equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women. Within the framework of a democratic polity, our laws, development policies, Plans and programs have aimed at women’s advancement in different spheres. From the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974-78) onwards has been a marked shift in the approach to women’s issues from welfare to development. In recent years, the empowerment of women has been recognized as the central issue in determining the status of women. The National Commission for Women was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1990 to safeguard the rights and legal entitlements of women. The 73rd and 74th Amendments (1993) to the Constitution of India have provided for reservation of seats in the local bodies of Panchayats and Municipalities for women, laying a strong foundation for their participation in decision making at the local levels.

These are all the provisions which the Constitution has assured for women empowerment. But can we say these goals have been achieved? NO, NOT AT ALL. From past, i would say that Indian women is still unprivileged in villages and in cities, still they have to face difficult problems. There are some NGOS who are trying to strengthen women not only mentally but physically also.

In pune, two city based social organization working for women empowerment very efficiently. They have received international recognition too. The United Nations Human Settlement Program UN-HABITAThas recognized the working model of Savitri Marketing institution for Ladies Empowerment (SMILE) headed by selecting it as the ‘best practices’ organization, while another organization Manasi, founded by Dipti Choudhari has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mauritius Government for a marketing centre and training their officials. The two organizations have been running with infrastructural help from the Pune Municipal Corporation. (Source : Pune Mirror)

Fortunately, Pune is some better and safer than other Indian towns, where the news papers are full of rape and domestic violence. As everywhere, pune is also getting affected of this evil these days. I think, this is the High time when the Government has to make sure for the execution of various women empowerment programs. ‘Bell Bajao’ mission program is a good step toward it.
Women's empowerment refers to the ability of women to transform economic and social development when empowered to fully participate in the decisions that affect their lives through leadership training, coaching, consulting, and the provision of enabling tools for women to lead within their communities, regions, and countries.

Ask yourself one question, one side we claim ourselves a superpower and on the other hand we have not even overcome with the problem of Gender inequality. Is it possible for India to become a superpower with this Male dominated society?? ?

In pune with these small achievement, we can say that women empowerment program is shaping up here but its needs our support, active support. This is our pune, our India.

ARISE AWAKE

Recession: India & Pune

“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job.”

Oil prices have been surging. Housing markets have been dropping. Interest rates keep getting cut by the Banks in order to help curb the negative effects of possible recession. Now the situation has arrived when all of the current economic activity sent the U.S. into an economic recession. Are you prepared? Included in this article are several helpful tips and advice on ways to potentially avoid some of the pitfalls that occur as a result of a recession. But, as we all know, a recession is something that no one can ever be completely prepared for as it effects nearly everything that has anything to do with finance. That is, except for the few nations that seem unaffected by the US economy, which is unusually rare :-).

Recession in India :-

Recession is a drastic slow in economy, where gross national or domestic product has fallen in two consecutive quarters. A recession would be indicated by a slowing of a nation's production, rising unemployment and falling interest rates, usually following a decline in the demand for money.
The word 'recession' is being frequently used in India in recent months despite the fact that the economy continues to grow and that even at 7 per cent in the current fiscal and perhaps 6 per cent in the next one, these will be amongst the better growth years for the Indian economy since independence.

Recession in Pune :-

Though there are many industries in India which is badly affected by the so-called recession. With a sharp fall in demand for commercial and passenger vehicles, small vendors supplying parts to the auto units in the Pune industrial belt of Pimpri-Chinchwad are worried a lot. The area which houses two Giants auto makers — Tata Motors and Bajaj Auto Ltd — has a large number of small industries and ancillary units that are now reeling under the cascading effect of the recessionary trends, showing no signs of abatement, being noticed since September last year. However Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zensar, and President of NASSCOM, gave a talk last week about how the Indian IT/ITES industry is tackling the recession. Specially, LPO industry in pune, like Mindcrest, is very safe and taking benefit of recession.

Effects of Recession :-

Bankruptcies
Credit Crunches
Deflation (or ··disinflation)
Foreclosures
Unemployment
So how to prepare for a recession? Here are five things you can do:

• Identify the particular skills or experience you have that you could provide to others on a freelance basis.
• Identify who would want to use the skills you have - and how to let them know about the services you can provide.
• Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Strengthen your weaknesses.
• If necessary, identify who you could team up with to make your offer stronger - someone whose strengths complement yours. Be sure to work out a very clear agreement as to how you'll work together in order to avoid disputes later.
• Develop a practical, achievable plan and take all the steps necessary to make sure you can put it into action quickly if the need arises.
• And if you do start your own business be sure to keep good records from the start. You'll need to report your income to the tax people and pulling all the details together at tax filing time is not fun.

But friends, do not worry India is on a safer side, Market is affected, but very less. Job sector will also revive very fast. In my view, India suffers global economic slowdown only and not recession.

Legal Process Outsourcing : An introduction

Outsourcing is subcontracting a process, such as product design or manufacturing, to a third-party company. Outsourcing involves the transfer of the management and/or day-to-day execution of an entire business function to an external service provider. Enter the new millennium, and law firms were sleek, new age hubs of strenuous legal activity, ranging from tedious to investigative to groundbreaking. Gradually, as world economy harmonized as one, and the global business community started outsourcing its key, albeit repetitive processes to reduce costs, time, effort, and manpower, the legal world developed too.

Present day economics is governed by technological growth where advanced communication systems rule the roost. Information technology has shrunk time and distance to such an extent that geographical boundaries are mere contours instead of dividers. Following in the wake of the financial world, the legal firms across the globe realized that to adapt themselves to the constantly evolving, competitive, economic scenario, they would have to develop strategies that would balance not only their deadlines but also provide efficient support systems. This brought about the evolution of Legal Process Outsourcing industry, where law firms obtained legal support services from key service providers, who were located halfway across the globe. Initially legal outsourcing involved low-end work like transcription. But soon the outsourcing pattern evolved to such specialized tasks as legal research, library services, pre-litigation document creation, consultation, application drafting, analysis, and so on. In the current scenario, approximately 80 per cent of companies, federal agencies, and leading law firms, opt for legal process outsourcing to reduce high operational costs and improve efficiencies.

There is some point indicating on the drawbacks of legal outsourcing and offshoring. There is a strong public opinion regarding outsourcing (especially when combined with offshoring) that outsourcing damages a local labor market. Outsourcing is the transfer of the delivery of services which affects both jobs and individuals. It is difficult to dispute that outsourcing has a detrimental effect on individuals who face job disruption and employment insecurity; however, its supporters believe that outsourcing should bring down prices, providing greater economic benefit to all. There are legal protections in the European Union regulations called the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment). Labor laws in the United States are not as protective as those in the European Union. A study has attempted to show that public controversies about outsourcing in the U.S. have much more to do with class and ethnic tensions within the U.S. itself, than with actual impacts of outsourcing.

Protections for the outsourcing firms can certainly be put into place. First and foremost, the contract between provider and client should make it absolutely clear that the provider must inform the client as soon as it learns of any possible conflict issues. Second, the firm should make sure that the provider it chooses is able to clearly articulate - and, if possible, demonstrate - the security safeguards it has implemented to ensure the validity of the process. These safeguards should be included in the statement of work agreement, in list format, along with the additional provision that the security devices must be maintained for the breadth of the contract. Thus determination of liability of the contracting parties for any security breach that results in measurable damages will be easier to ascertain. Third, due to the fact that technology and business procedures must often become intertwined in order for the outsourcing process to run efficiently, the security program used by the vendor should exist on both the physical and virtual levels for it to be as comprehensive as possible. It would be somewhat contradictory for an outsourcing company to rely on the fact that the production staff for two adverse law firms exists in separate offices, on separate floors or even in different cities. The very premise behind the outsourcing process is that physical separation is not a complete bar to the sharing of information - as such, a company cannot on one hand praise the concept that geographical differences are no longer barriers to the exchange of information and data, while relying strictly on geographical barriers as the only security measures put in place by the company. There is no doubt that physical separation of the production staff for adverse businesses is a good step; however, virtual separation is needed as well in order to create a robust security model.

By all this we can conclude that legal process outsourcing has tried to overcome with the financial problems in the country and and has great impavt on the common people. The legal complexity and great fees of lawyers have been minimized by this. As everything has two aspect, one is of good and other is of bad, it has also some drawbacks, like data security, productivity etc., but on a whole it is a great initiative in legal field and has changed the Legal age.