Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 11 January, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/nation/story_13421244.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5433,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Gender&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 11 January, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/nation/story_13421244.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5433,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 5341
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Gender&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <br /><div align="justify">The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.<br /><br />The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.<br /><br />The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.<br /><br />&ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.<br /><br />The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.<br /><br />In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.<br /><br />The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &ldquo;false or malicious&rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.<br /><br />&ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&rdquo; said the statement.<br /><br />The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.<br /><br />The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.<br /><br />Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.<br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 11 January, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/nation/story_13421244.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5433,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Gender&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 11 January, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/nation/story_13421244.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5433,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 5341
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Gender&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <br /><div align="justify">The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.<br /><br />The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.<br /><br />The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.<br /><br />&ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.<br /><br />The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.<br /><br />In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.<br /><br />The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &ldquo;false or malicious&rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.<br /><br />&ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&rdquo; said the statement.<br /><br />The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.<br /><br />The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.<br /><br />Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.<br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f09b70840bb-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 11 January, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/nation/story_13421244.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5433,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Gender&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 5341,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 11 January, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/nation/story_13421244.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 5433,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 5341
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Gender&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&amp;rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &amp;ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&amp;rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &amp;ldquo;false or malicious&amp;rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&amp;rdquo; said the statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &amp;mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &amp;mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <br /><div align="justify">The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.<br /><br />The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.<br /><br />The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.<br /><br />&ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.<br /><br />The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.<br /><br />In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.<br /><br />The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &ldquo;false or malicious&rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.<br /><br />&ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&rdquo; said the statement.<br /><br />The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.<br /><br />The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.<br /><br />Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.<br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 5341,
		'title' => 'NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<br />
<div align="justify">
The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.<br />
<br />
The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.<br />
<br />
The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.<br />
<br />
The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.<br />
<br />
In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.<br />
<br />
The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &ldquo;false or malicious&rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&rdquo; said the statement.<br />
<br />
The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.<br />
<br />
The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.<br />
<br />
Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.<br />
<br />
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Telegraph, 11 January, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/nation/story_13421244.jsp',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 5433,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 5341,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Gender',
	'metaDesc' => '

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter...',
	'disp' => '<br /><div align="justify">The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.<br /><br />The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.<br /><br />The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.<br /><br />&ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.<br /><br />The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.<br /><br />In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.<br /><br />The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &ldquo;false or malicious&rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.<br /><br />&ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&rdquo; said the statement.<br /><br />The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.<br /><br />The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.<br /><br />Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.<br /><br /></div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 5341,
	'title' => 'NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<br />
<div align="justify">
The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.<br />
<br />
The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.<br />
<br />
The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.<br />
<br />
The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.<br />
<br />
In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.<br />
<br />
The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &ldquo;false or malicious&rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&rdquo; said the statement.<br />
<br />
The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.<br />
<br />
The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.<br />
<br />
Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.<br />
<br />
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Telegraph, 11 January, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/nation/story_13421244.jsp',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'nac-frowns-on-bill-blow-to-maids-by-basant-kumar-mohanty-5433',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 5433,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 5341
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty'
$metaKeywords = 'Gender'
$metaDesc = '

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.

The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter...'
$disp = '<br /><div align="justify">The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces.<br /><br />The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation.<br /><br />The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse.<br /><br />&ldquo;Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,&rdquo; a statement issued by the NAC said.<br /><br />The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation.<br /><br />In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The &ldquo;malicious intent or falsehood&rdquo; on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill.<br /><br />The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for &ldquo;false or malicious&rdquo; complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill.<br /><br />&ldquo;Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,&rdquo; said the statement.<br /><br />The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers.<br /><br />The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21.<br /><br />Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population &mdash; 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas &mdash; subsidised food grain by 2014.<br /><br /></div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

NAC frowns on bill blow to maids by Basant Kumar Mohanty

The National Advisory Council, headed by Sonia Gandhi, today disapproved the exclusion of domestic workers from the purview of a proposed law for protection of women against sexual harassment at workplaces. The bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, aims to prevent harassment of women at the workplace by implied or overt promise of preferential treatment or threat or interference in work through intimidation. The NAC, which discussed the bill today, felt that exclusion of domestic workers from the ambit of the bill enhances their vulnerability and denies them protection from abuse. “Most domestic workers are poor, illiterate, unskilled, and come from vulnerable communities and backward areas. They are underpaid and ill-treated as domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated. Their workplace being the confines of private homes, domestic workers, especially live-in workers, are prone to sexual harassment and abuse without access to any complaint mechanism or remedial measures,” a statement issued by the NAC said. The proposed law mandates the setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or provides for settling the matter through conciliation. In the case of a false or malicious complaint, the bill provides for action against the complainant in accordance with service rules and in any other manner in case no service rules exist. The “malicious intent or falsehood” on part of the complainant shall be established after an inquiry in accordance with procedure prescribed before any action is recommended, says the bill. The NAC felt that such provision for punishment for “false or malicious” complaints might deter victims from seeking protection under the proposed law. It recommended removal of this provision from the bill. “Given the fear of reprisal, which routinely prevents women from coming forward to seek protection against sexual harassment at the work place, the safeguards provided to them by this bill are weakened by the inclusion of clause 14 (punishment for false or malicious complaint and false evidence), which might deter victims from seeking protection of the proposed legislation,” said the statement. The NAC also decided to constitute a working group to evolve an integrated and holistic approach to provide safeguards to domestic workers. The NAC also discussed the proposed national food security bill. It will prepare a detailed note on the bill, which will be discussed at its next meeting on January 21. Last October, the NAC had recommended that the proposed national food security bill should legally guarantee 75 per cent of the population — 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas — subsidised food grain by 2014.