The rights of those holding up the sky

A new website helps women know about their legal rights, and brings to one place, all the schemes that the state has put in place for problems faced by women. Whether it works is still to be tested

If you are even minimally keyboard-dextrous and are a woman (or not, as the case may be), you can find out everything the state is doing for you — just click on the NARI website (NARI.nic.in), select options from a dropdown menu and you will get access to all the information — about schemes, areas where they are operating, whom to contact, online copies of forms — everything.

When Women and Child Development (WCD) minister Menaka Gandhi inaugurated the website on January 2, she said she saw it as a platform that will provide information to women on