(a) Investigate and examine all matters relating to the safeguards provided for women under the Constitution and other laws;
(b) Present to the Government, annually and at such other times as the Commission may deem fit, reports upon the working of those safeguards;
(c) Make in such reports recommendations for the effective implementation of those safeguards for improving the conditions of women by the State;
(d) Review, from time to time, the existing provisions of the Constitutions and other laws affecting women and recommend amendments thereto so as to suggest remedial legislative measures to meet any lacunae, inadequacies or shortcomings in such legislation's;
(e) Take up the case of violation of the provisions of the Constitution and of other laws, relating to women with the appropriate authorities;
(f) Look into complaints an take suo motu notice of matters relating to -
I. Deprivation of women's rights;
II. Non-implementations of laws enacted to provide protection to women and also to achieve the objective of equality and development;
III. Non-compliance of policy decisions, guidelines or instructions aimed at mitigating hardships and ensuring welfare and providing relief to women; and take up the issues arising out of such matters with appropriate authorities;
(g) Call for special studies or investigations into specific problems or situations arising out of discrimination and atrocities against women and identify the constraints so as to recommend strategies for their removal;
(h) Undertake promotional and educational research so as to suggest ways of ensuring due representation of women in all spheres and identify factors responsible for impeding their advancement, such as, lack of access to housing and basic services, inadequate support services and technologies for reducing drudgery and occupational health hazards and for increasing their productivity;
(i) Participate and advise on the planning process of socio-economic development of women;
(j) Monitor and review the women related schemes/programmes in the States and evaluate the progress of the development of women under the State;
(k) Inspect or cause to be inspected Police Stations, Jail, remand home, women's institution or other place of custody where women are kept prisoners or otherwise, and take up with the concerned authorities for remedial action, if found necessary;
(l) Call for data from any organization on various issues/aspects of journey of women towards development, empowerment and accessibility, including growth and hurdles faced by them for individual, family or society etc:
(m) Make periodical reports to the Government on any matter pertaining to women and in particular various difficulties under which women toil;
(n) Any other matter which may be referred to it by the Government;
(o) Shall furnish comments and recommendations on any report of the National Commission for Women on any matter with which the Government is concerned as the Government may call for.
(a) Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person from any part of India and examining him on oath;(b) Requiring the discovery and production of any document;
(c) Receiving evidence on affidavits;
(d) Requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any public office;
(e) Any other matter which may be prescribed.
Chapter - IV
Finance, Accounts and Audit
Section 10 • Haryana State Commission For Women Act, 2012
10. Functions of the Commission.
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