Girija Vyas Quotations

Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.

We need to evolve a uniform law which does not leave room for any confusion and states that the minimum marriageable age for women is 18 years and that for men is 21 years. But the demand for this should come from within the community.

There shouldn't be two Indias; we need affordable housing. There are projections that by 2017, 18.78 million will be the number of those living in slums.

There have been reports of many child marriages taking place in the Malabar region in Kerala, especially among the Muslim community. However, under Muslim Personal Law, a girl can be married once she attains puberty, and hence we cannot say that such marriages are not valid.

We have requested the ministry to recruit more women for the force so that all stations in the big cities can have at least one lady officer.

If we find them lacking in security for female staffers, action will be taken against them.

The problem is serious as trafficking of girls is also associated with this problem.

The practice, as found by our members during their visits to the southern states, is still continuing. We are studying the possibility of putting in place more stringent laws to fight the menace.

This is highly objectionable. The state government should have acted against these strip bars much earlier.

The Bangalore incident does not deserve to be dismissed as a stray, one-off case. It's a warning to the BPO industry and calls for a serious review of the situation as over 350,000 women are working in the sector in India.