Unmarried women in twelve villages of Banaskantha district in northern Gujarat will not be able to use mobile phones, if a powerful organisation of the Kshatriya Thakor community here has its way The Kshatriya Thakor Samaj , in a community meeting held last Sunday at Jegol village, decided to "ban" the use of mobile phones by unmarried women of the community , but did not specify what it would do if someone went against it. “The girls are not to be given mobiles, and if such m ..
Interestingly, the Congress MLA from Vav in Banaskantha, Geniben Thakor, welcomed the set of diktats and maintained that the decision to keep girls away from mobiles was taken in their own interest. 

Thakor told ET it was top priority to spread education and awareness within the community and that "moves like banning mobile phoone will help the girls focus on education." 

While she refused to comment on the issue of inter community marriages saying that under the Indian Constit .. 
 
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