Provisions in the Constitution of India, Legislations, Policies, Reports, and Judgements Article(s) of the CEDAW 6. Schemes for rural women / women in agriculture • Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana launched in 2011 to help & extend support to women farmers who make up for one-third of the agricultural labour and almost a half of the self-employed farmers. • Kudumbashree ( under the State Poverty Eradication Mission (SPEM) of Kerala): Since 2006, Kerala has introduced collective farming on fallow farmland taken on informal lease by groups of women organized with the support of Panchayats and joint liability groups of women farmers. These groups are formed under the collective farming initiative to help women cultivators access agricultural loans/ credit from the banking system. (SELF-HELP GROUPS) JUDGMENTS: 1. Madhu Kishwar v. Union of India – Tribal & Agricultural rights of Women (1996) SCC (5) 125: Madhu Kishwar v. State of Bihar (1996) 5. SCC 125): SC held that the exclusive right of male succession conceived in Sections 7 and 8 of the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908 would remain suspended animation as long as the right of livelihood of the female descendants of the last male holder remained valid and in vogue. 2. Nirmala v. State of NCT Delhi, right of daughter in agricultural land in India LQ/DelHC/2020/153 : Delhi HC, declared the part of Land Laws of Delhi as void, as the same disentitled daughters from 99 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Gaps in the implementation of CEDAW in India (G) and its corresponding recommendations (R)