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The Rajasthan State Women's Commission primarily functions to:

Correct answer: (A) Investigate complaints of atrocities against women and safeguard their rights.

The Rajasthan State Women's Commission primarily investigates complaints and unfair practices affecting women and safeguards women's rights by recommending corrective action to the State Government.

  1. (A)

    Investigate complaints of atrocities against women and safeguard their rights

  2. (B)

    Conduct elections

  3. (C)

    Manage state prisons

  4. (D)

    Collect state revenue

Explanation

The Rajasthan State Women's Commission is not an administrative department for elections, prisons or revenue; it is a statutory body focused on women's rights. The Rajasthan State Commission for Women Act, 1999 lists functions such as inquiring into unfair practices, investigating important issues concerning women, reporting corrective measures to the Government, monitoring laws concerning women, inspecting prisons, police stations, rescue homes, shelters and hostels where women are kept or housed, recommending welfare and legislative measures, advising on socio-economic development of women, and creating awareness on issues concerning women. That statutory role matches option A: investigating complaints of atrocities or rights violations against women and protecting their rights through inquiry, reporting and recommendations.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (B) Conducting elections is outside the Women's Commission's rights-protection mandate and belongs to the Election Commission, not this body.
  • (C) The Act allows the Commission to inspect places such as prisons or shelters where women are kept, but managing state prisons is a Home Department function, not the Commission's primary role.
  • (D) State revenue collection is not among the Commission's listed functions, which are centred on women's rights, welfare, inquiry, advice and awareness.

Concept

This tests statutory bodies in Rajasthan's political and administrative system, especially the distinction between advisory or rights-protection commissions and executive departments. It recurs in RAS because such commissions are often tested through their core mandate and limits of jurisdiction.

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