Re-read the storyboard on how a new law on domestic violence got passed. Describe in your own words the different ways in which women’s groups worked to make this happen.

Women worked very hard. They also used different kinds of forums like public protests, hearings, press conference etc. for completing their demands. People of India came to know from their own direct experiences and through observations and through mass-media that the Indian women were not treated equally and well at their homes and work-places.

The women of our country wanted protection against being beaten, from all sorts of physical or social violence.

In 1990s the idea of new law for giving protection to women was raised in different forums. After this in 1999, a group of lawyers known as lawyers collective, law students took the lead in drafting the domestic violence bill.

After some time many NGOs started the women movement. Finally, in 2005 a bill was introduced in the Parliament. And then historically this bill after being passed by the both houses of Parliament and getting approval from the President came into effect in 2006 with the name “The Domestic Violence Act”.