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Many women unaware of dowry law, finds survey
The Hindu
Kudumbashree to launch mass awareness campaign
Despite the intense debate surrounding dowry and victims it claimed in recent times, a survey found 896 women in the district to be ignorant about the fact that dowry remains prohibited by law in the country. The shocking finding during the week-long survey by Snehitha, its gender help desk and local gender resource centre, seems to have spurred the district Kudumbashree Mission into a mass awareness campaign not just against dowry but domestic violence in general. Among other things, members will be educated about the prevalence of the Dowry Prohibition Act. “A poster designing contest, Dowry - a social evil, is being held to help the new generation take a firm stance against the malaise. Though the ignorance about dowry was aired by 896 individuals, we will reach out to all the respective neighbourhood groups (NHGs) in their entirety and mount an awareness campaign against dowry both through our online platforms and printed materials,” said Shine T. Money, district programme manager (gender), Kudumbashree.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.