Women and men are equal partners and the undoubted best companions. Therefore, women and men always walk together in every field to make life more meaningful and to fulfill the purposes of life in the world.
1. At home: As popular practice suggests, at home, the main responsibilities of men are to provide shelter, security and protection and also to provide for the needs and the necessities of the family. On the other, women's responsibilities at home are to manage food, clothing for the family, to teach and nurture the children with education, discipline, manners and to take care of the family's needs and necessities.
2. In the society: As equal partners, men and women have equal parts as much as abilities to play in the society be in the Church, Office ,Business ,Sports , Schools, fields and in all the institutions of human beings without any discrimination.
3. Equal rights: Men and women have equal rights in the exercise of franchise of equality, are equal in the eyes of law, equal voting rights, equal opportunities for employment and participation in all organizations and matters concerning the society.
4. Equal responsibilities as much as rights in spiritual activities like praying, singing, preaching and mission activities. In many cased, women are more sincere and perform these duties better.
5. Equal contribution towards taking family decisions and creating family assets and properties like acquiring of land, construction of buildings, purchase of properties.
6. Women also blend and build relationships with other communities and tribes through inter-marriage.
7. At times of sickness and old age problems, the women nurse us like their own being whereas men usually fail to do the same.
8. Even in the most difficult times and situations, the beauty and sincerity of women without any discrimination makes one psychologically happy and strengthened.
9. In our traditional cultural practices like singing and dancing during merry-making festivals the women folks are equal participants in the celebrations.
Therefore , when responsibilities are shared and rights equal to men and women, there arises no necessity to object the 33% quota reservation for women to participate together in the Municipal Council, which is a welcome initiative to encourage women's participation in the decision making and execution of works for the benefit of society. Instead of the unwelcome attitude towards such a progressive policy, men folks should welcome this reservation policy to include women in the policy making body to contribute their ideas for the better planning as well as management of our Cities and Towns.
No group or section of the society should be sidelined from participating in the responsible and participative development of the society and its institutions or limited by society's stubbornness to commit to positive change nor should any benevolent policy for their upliftment be hindered by any sort of apprehension or under any pretense. Any kind of reservation policy is subject to periodical review and if the implementation and the consequent review of the Women reservation policy is done in the right manner, the women reservation policy will serve it's rightful purpose. But if this reservation policy becomes a stagnant one and a policy favouring only the creamy-layer amongst the women folks, it will turn the sincere policy into a mockery worthy of scrapping.
Therefore in my personal opinion / view no community or organization should create a hindrance to the implementation of 33% women reservation in Nagaland Municipal Elections but should instead welcome and support the women reservation policy through a holistic approach of prioritizing the best interest of the society as a whole.
Khinyi Woch A concerned citizen
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