Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Commission shall perform all or any of the following functions, namely: (a) inquire into any unfair trade practice, take decision thereon, and to recommend to the Government the actions to be taken in that matter; (b) cause investigations to be made by the Member Secretary on issue of importance concerning women or issues concerning unfair practice and to report thereon to the Government in the corrective measures to be taken ; (women related issues) (c) submit Annual Reports to the Government - (i) on the lacunae, inadequacies, or shortcomings in the laws in force which affect the constitutional right to equality and fair treatment of women and also on the remedial legislative measures to be taken to meet the situations; (ii) of the monitoring of the working of laws, in force, concerning women with a view to identifying the areas where the enforcement of law is not adequately effective or has not been streamlined and recommending executive or legislative measures to be taken in amelioration thereof; (iii) of the monitoring the recruitment made to State Public Service and State Public Undertakings and, promotions within the said services and, scrutinising the rules and regulations governing such recruitment and promotions, with a view to reporting to the Government for action, if any, required to guarantee equal opportunity to women in the matter of such recruitment and promotions; (d)(i) inspect or cause to be inspected, by the Member Secretary or any officer of the Commission duly authorised by the Commission, in that behalf, prisons, police stations, lock-ups, sub-jails, rescue homes or other places of custody where women are kept as prisoners or otherwise, or shelters for women or other similar places run by the Government, or any of its agencies including agencies receiving aid from the Government for the purpose of offering rescue or shelter to women, or hostels intended for women or girls run by any person and all such other places wherein unfair practices against women is complained of and, cause further inquiries to be made about the treatment that women and girls are subjected to at such places and, to report to the Government for taking remedial action ; (ii) in case where the Commission is of the view that any public servant has been grossly negligent or grossly indifferent in regard to the discharge of his/her duties in relation to the protection of the interest of women, it may recommend to the concerned disciplinary authority or initiate disciplinary action : (e) recommend to Government, the welfare measures to be adopted and implemented by the Government with a view to ameliorating the conditions of women; (f) formulate a comprehensive and affirmative scheme for securing equal opportunities to women and devise a programme for implementing such scheme which shall be forwarded to the Government for approval and, on obtaining approval thereof with or without modification, implement the same or cause the same to be implemented; (g) Empower the Member Secretary to recommend to the appropriate authority to take prosecution proceedings in respect of offences committed against women under any statute providing for penalty for violation of the provisions of such statute; (h) maintain a comprehensive Data Bank relating to the social economic and political conditions of the women including comparative study, updating the same from time to time, making available such data for use in actions for vindication of the rights of women ; (i) recommend to Government to initiate legislation for removal of discrimination in the case of inheritance, guardianship, adoption and divorce or for matters relating to the safeguarding of the dignity of women and the honour of motherhood : (j) call for special studies or investigations into specific problems or situations arising out of discrimination and atrocities against women and identify the constraints so as to recommend strategies for their removal; (k) participate and advise on the planning process of social, political and economic development of women ; (I) fund litigation involving issues affecting a large body of women ; (m) make periodical reports lo the Government on any matter pertaining to women, and in particular, various difficulties under which women toil; (n) undertake promotional and educational research so as to suggest ways of ensuring due representation of women in all spheres, including monitoring of the academic curricula in the State so as to check gender-bias, sex stereotyping, envisaged in the core curricular area of National Policy of Education, 1986 (Revised 1992). (o) identify factors responsible for impending the advancement of women. such as lack of access to housing and basic services, particularly for single women and female-headed households, and inadequate support services and technologies for reducing drudgery and, occupational health hazards and, for increasing their productivity; (p) hold Family Court to dispose off cases related to unfair practices against women; (r) any other matter which may be referred to it by the Government (2) The Government shall lay the recommendations of the commission under sub- section ( I ) of section 15, before the Legislative Assembly during its next session and cause action to be taken thereon by the authority concerned within 60 days from the date of laying such recommendations. Inquiry into unfair practices