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Rajasthan caste panchayat bars women from using smartphones, triggers protests
The ban affects daughters and daughters-in-law in 15 villages, allowing only basic phones except for limited student use; community cites family and child health concerns.
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A decision by a community council in Jalore district, Rajasthan, has sparked a new debate about women's digital freedom. The Chaudhari community council in Sundhamaata Patti has banned women from using smartphones in 15 villages. Under this order, which will come into effect on January 26th, women will only be able to use keypad mobile phones. The decision is being linked to social decorum and child safety, while opponents are calling it a restr…
Rajasthan panchayat in Jalore district bans camera phones for daughters-in-law
A village panchayat in Rajasthan’s Jalore district has prohibited daughters-in-law and young women from 15 villages from using phones with cameras starting January 26 which is also India’s Republic Day, the day the Indian Constitution came into force. Apart from this objectional ban itself, reported by Rediff.com, New Indian Express and other media outlets, taking a phone to public functions or a neighbour’s house will also be banned. Instead, t…
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