A STUDY OF STUMBLED ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY WRF TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON MAHILA WORKERS OF UNORGANIZED SECTOR WITH REFERENCE TO NORTHEAST AREAS OF MUMBAI CITY

Domestic Violence is a human rights issue and a serious offence committed against women at large in many Indian houses. It is more rampant, persistent, severe and violent among rural as well as urban population. The severity is definitely high amongst the uneducated, poor, low middle, and even the middle class population perhaps the figure of domestic violence may tend to even be equal in case of educated working class of population. The domestic violence is serious deterrent to development. The Vienna Accord of 1994 and the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action (1995) have acknowledged this. The United Nations committee on Convention on Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW) in its General Recommendation No. XII (1989) has recommended that State parties should act to protect women against violence of any kind especially that occurring within the family. The Study on women workers provides information on their wage and working conditions, socioeconomic background and life styles. Some are migrants which make them come to Mumbai city for livelihood because of their financial compulsions. Some women work as maid servants, some as construction laborers, some as vendors, sweepers, scavengers etc. They live in slums, in bad living conditions with no sanitation facilities, lack of water and health of these women is more vulnerable showing mortality rates, delivery deaths, ailments, prolonged diseases like Tuberculosis, asthma, skin diseases etc. The Research background is magnifying the details and findings through applied research. This is a problem solving and problem oriented research.