The News Minute | June 26, 2014 | 1.35 pm ISTA research paper produced by the Brookings Institution India, has accused the NDA-led government of having “a disturbing lack of policy vision on women’s issues… and a feeble understanding of the sustained gross neglect” of women in India.A report published by the Hindustan Times says that the institution published a report called “Beginning a new conversation on women”. The Brookings report says that there were glaring holes in the 10-point agenda that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had put out upon assuming office.The authors of the Brookings report Shamika Ravi and Anuradha Sajjanhar published their findings in an article for The Hindu. They wrote: “While crimes against women have more than doubled between 1990 and 2011, close to 40 per cent of these are injuries inflicted by husbands or family members. The National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-3 reports that 37 per cent of women who have ever been married have experienced spousal physical or sexual violence, and 40 per cent have experienced spousal physical, sexual or emotional violence. At present, married women and widowed women have a much higher prevalence of violence against them (37 and 38 per cent) than women who have never been married (16 per cent) or women whose gauna has not yet taken place (15 per cent).”