Overview

• Sushmita Dev wrote to parliamentary standing committee chair Digvijaya Singh on June 6, 2025, urging amendments to the 1990 NCW Act to restore the commission’s autonomy, credibility and effectiveness.
• She highlights the NCW’s budgetary dependence on the Ministry of Women and Child Development as a structural flaw that compromises its independence.
• Dev accuses the NCW of exercising suo motu powers selectively by prioritizing cases in opposition-ruled states and overlooking violence in BJP-governed regions.
• She points to interventions in West Bengal and prolonged inaction in Manipur and Assam as evidence of partisan conduct undermining the commission’s neutrality.
• The MP calls on the committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports to revisit stalled reform efforts, including the 2014 NCW Bill, and implement checks and balances.