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: - (i) inquire into any unfair practice, take decision thereon and to recommend to the Government the action to be taken in that matter; (ii) cause investigations to be made by the Director on issues of importance concerning women and issues concerning unfair practices and to report thereon to the Government on the corrective measures to be taken; (iii) submit to the Government annual reports on –– 362 (a) the lacunae, inadequacies or short-comings 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 situation; (b) the monitoring of the working of laws in force concerning women with a view to identifying areas where the enforcement of laws is not adequately effective or has not been streamlined and recommending executive or legislative measures to be taken; (c) monitoring the recruitments and promotions made within the Union territory and scrutinizing the rules and regulations governing such recruitments and promotions with a view to reporting to the Government action, if any, required to guarantee equal opportunity to women in the matter of such recruitments and promotions; (iv) (a) inspect or cause to be inspected, by the Director or any officer of the Commission 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 places run by the Government for the purpose of offering rescue or shelter to women, or hostels intended for women or girls run by any person and such other places wherein unfair practice to 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 remedial action; (b) in cases 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 duties in relation to the protection of interest of women, recommend to the concerned disciplinary authority to initiate disciplinary action; (v) recommend to Government, the welfare measures to be adopted and implemented by the government with a view to ameliorating the conditions of women; (vi) 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 modifications, implement the same; (vii) empower the Director 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; 363 (viii) maintain 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; (ix) recommend to Government to initiate legislation for removal of discrimination in the case of inheritance, guardianship, adoption or for matters relating to the safeguarding of the dignity of women and the honor of motherhood; (x) 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; (xi) participate and advise on the planning process of socio-economic development of women; (xii) fund litigation involving issues affecting a large body of women; (xiii) make periodical reports to the Government on any matter pertaining to women and in particular various difficulties under which women toil; (xiv) undertake promotional and educational research so as to suggest ways of ensuring due representation of women in all spheres and identify factors responsible for impeding their advancement such as, lack of access to housing and basic services, inadequate support services and technologies, for reducing drudgery and occupational health hazards and for increasing their productivity; (xv) co-operate with and assist and seek co-operation and assistance of the National Commission for Women and other Commissions for Women set up by different State Governments and Union Territory Administrations and also the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Backward Classes and National Commission for Minorities; (xvi) any other matter which may be referred to it by the Government. (2) The Government shall cause all the recommendations or any part thereof, as may be presented to it by the Commission under sub-section (1) which relate to any matter with which the Government is concerned to be laid before the Legislative Assembly of Puducherry along with a Memorandum explaining the action taken or proposed to be taken on the recommendations of the Commission and the reasons for non-acceptance, if any, of such recommendations. Grants by Government