agra more than 40 ngos working to help and support harassed men and their families who suffer because of misuse of various genderbasedlaws have demanded the creation of a separate ministry for mens welfare a group of mens rights activists called save indian family movement said one married man commits suicide every nine minutes in the country due to genderbiased laws the group has demanded dismantling of the discriminatory antimale laws and increased accountability of the government to look into adequate promotion and protection of rights of men in gender relationships the resolutions were adopted during the 6th national meet of mens rights held in agra on august 1416 the conference was attended by 140 activists representing more than 40 activist groups from india and abroad kumar jahgirdar a key organizer and national president of childrens rights initiative for shared parenting crisp said the conference endorsed that trampling the rights of men under guise of positive discrimination towards women is not something that will be tolerated any more he added barkha trehan another spokesperson of the conference said the present legal apparatus is heavily tilted in favour of girls who are increasingly misusing the provisions to extort money and getting the whole family ruined through false allegations ncrbs own data suggests that more than 80 cases are wrong we therefore demand inclusive policies for both genders the members said they would request government not to ignore men suicide which is almost double that of women and instead conduct detailed studies about social pressures and crimes against men talking about the discriminations faced by men members said many husbands face threats of false cases like dowry harassment domestic violence kidnapping child molestation which most of the time prove to be false after a lengthy trial the family courts are generally biased against fathers first of all visitation orders are not passed generously and even if passed there is no practical mechanism available to enforce the same or punish the woman violating such orders premarital counselling should be made compulsory for couples before entering into marriage parents who force their children into marriage should be punished since the cost of a failed marriage is very high on the spouses and is especially devastating on children said members