 statement of objects and reasonsin india, with a male-dominated society, women constitute the most exploited and weaker sections of the community in the patriarchal set up as is in india, women have traditionally little, rather negligible, by way of property rights they have, so to say, no status of their own in their childhood they are wholly dependent on their parents or guardians, in their married life they depend on the sweet will, nay whims and fancies, of their husbands, in their widowhood they are just destitutes even afier 53 years of independence, the status of women is practically no better amongst the minorities, the tribals and rural masses, it is comparatively worse since status goes with property-rights, an effort needs to be made to confer property rights on the women folk, right from birth, and childhood the present legislation seeks to codify and confer specific property rights on women al various stages of their lives, namely, childhood, unmarried and married life and desertion or destitution so as to accord them a status and confer on them rights equal to their male counterparts, in true spirit of the "right to equality before the law" as enshrined in the 'constitution of india new dewnt; renuka chowdhury november 10, 2000 memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 8 of the bill empowers the central government to frame tules for carrying out purpose of the bill as the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of egislative power is of a normal character 