Demand to throw open Gender Park fully to women
The Hindu
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V.P. Zuhra, president of NISA, a Kozhikode-based forum for progressive Muslim women, has demanded the State government take immediate steps to make the Gender Park campus in the city useful to women.
Speaking to media here on Friday, Ms. Zuhra pointed out that despite two inaugurations, the first one six years ago, the facilities at the Gender Park are yet to be of any use to women. The government has so far spent ₹26 crore on the facility, which was envisaged as a platform to combine various projects for women and transgenders. However, it is yet to be thrown open for women, she alleged.
“I had to take permission from Thiruvananthapuram to just go and sit there at the library to complete writing my book,” she said, adding that the Gender Park does not provide any solace to women, at this time, when gender-based violence and injustice are on the rise.
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