Kozhikode: After the meeting with the Women in Cinema Collective in the incident where the actress was attacked, the chairperson of the women’s commission P. Sati Devi. The chairperson of the Women’s Commission said that there was no need to make the Homa Commission report public.
There needs to be an atmosphere of confidence when new girls enter the film industry. Construction companies need to make sure of that. I spoke to the Minister in charge of the Film and Culture Department in connection with the Hema Commission report. The Hema Commission is not a committee constituted under the Inquiry Commission Act. Therefore, the minister said, there was no need for the government to present the report in the Assembly. Of course, control and monitoring are essential in the film industry. Legislation is needed. The Internal Compliance Committee must be constituted by all construction companies. We will submit proposals to the government to address the exploitation of women in the film industry and other issues. We hope the government will give its full support to this, ”Sati Devi said.
The government appointed the Hema Commission to study the problems of women in the film industry. Although the commission has submitted its report, the government has not yet implemented any of the recommendations in the report. To a question as to why the Hema Commission report was not implemented, the government replied that it was examining in detail the implementation of the report. The government spent over Rs 1 crore on the Hema Commission. The cost of the commission from 2017 to 2020 is Rs.10655000. This is stated in the RTI document. According to the documents, Justice Hema received Rs 10322254 ten times.
The government’s commission to study the working conditions of women in the film industry was formed after the WCC, a women’s group in the film industry, met the Chief Minister in person after the attack on the actress. In addition to Justice Hema, the commission comprising Vatsalakumari and actress Sharda submitted its report to the government in 2019.
The commission also recorded the statements of about 60 women in the film industry. But protests, including by the WCC, are intensifying against the government’s unwillingness to take further action on the multi-crore commission report.
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