Effective Utilisation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) For Empowerment of Women In India

Abstract

Women empowerment in India is largely dependent on several variables ie. geographical location (urban/rural), educational status, social status (caste and class), and age. Women are deprived of decision making in family affairs, freedom of movement, access to education, access to employment, exposure to media and subjected to, domestic violence. Forty-one percent of women in the age group of 15-49 have never been to school. Today, the major cause of high infant mortality and malnutrition has more to do with lack of knowledge about feeding than insufficient food and nutritional status because of poverty. information technology has changed the communication paradigm, making it no longer difficult to reach a large number of people more or less at the same time; and that too enable them to respond, interact as well as obtain a copy of the information within a low-cost. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) apart from sensitising people against this heinous crime and helping them in general to change their opinion about a girl child, can also play a highly interventionist role by proactively pursuing cases against erring doctors, booking them under the law of the land