There are many evils in society like dowry, child marriage, declaring someone as devil and persecute him or her, belief in ghosts and goblins.
What will be the effect on these by giving powers to gram sabhas ?
Will such prevalent practices increase or decrease? These evils are in perpetuity from many centuries because of wrong beliefs. These beliefs have taken roots in our psyche. Some of the evils have been declared as crimes under the law and provisions have been made for punishment.
If gram sabhas support any of the evils then it would be against the law. It seems very unlikely that the evils will increase if the power is vested in the gram sabhas but the chances of evil decreasing also seem remote. If these prevalent evil practices have to reduce then a different movement will have to be started that will work on the social level to cleanse the mind of beliefs that have created a space in people’s psyche for many centuries.
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