CRITICAL EVALUATION OF POLICY AND PROGRAMMES FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA

Women in India constitute around half of the Country’s population (i.e.48.4%) hence they are regarded as the “better half of the society”. In the official proclamation, they are at the par with men. But in real life, the truth prevails otherwise, our society is still male-dominated. Womens are not treated as an equal partners. The paper critically investigates the status of women in India compared to male. The paper develops arguments on the basis of secondary data as review of existing literature published in Books, Journals, leading newspapers and reputed national websites. The paper critically evaluatos various schemes and programmes implemented by the central government for the women empowerment in India. The present paper discuss about the India's 112th rank among 153 countries in the world Economic forum Global Gender Gap Index 2020, which slipped from 108th position in 2018, finally paper emphasized on there is an Urgent need to adopt some appropriate measures to empower women’s in India