In the case of Pvalue Analytics Company declaring Dehradun, the capital of Devbhoomi Uttarakhand, as unsafe for women in the National Annual Report and Index (NARI) 2025, released on the basis of perception, today on 8 September 2025, the Uttarakhand State Women’s Commission had summoned the Managing Director of the company and directed him to appear.
In this case, Mayank Dhaya was present in the State Women’s Commission today as the representative of the company. Where, as a representative of the company, he apologized for the suspicious situation in the annual report and index on the questions of the commission and said that this is an academic report whose purpose was not to tarnish the image of any city.
At the same time, in front of the Commission’s chairperson and the panel present, the company’s representative Mayank Dhaiyya could not answer the Commission’s questions. As the information provided by him was not sufficient, he said that he did not have much information about this report and he would be able to answer it after talking to the company. The Commission’s chairperson reprimanded him and directed the research team and the Managing Director to be present at the next hearing.
Women’s Commission chairperson Kusum Kandwal informed that the company’s representative lacked information, due to which the hearing of this case has been postponed to the 15th of this month. Giving strict instructions, she said that the company’s Managing Director along with the annual report and the chief investigator/assistant investigator of the Index have to be present at the next hearing and the answers to all the Commission’s questions, all the documents of the research and survey and the minutes of all the meetings and actions taken for the survey should be made available to the Commission within a week.
Kusum Kandwal said that the Commission’s team has found many flaws in the annual report and index released by Pvalue Analytics Company, for which satisfactory answers could not be found in today’s hearing, which is completely suspicious. The questions asked to the women included in the annual report and survey have also not been made public, it is also not clear which women have been included in the survey, whether they are working or housewives, it is also not clear which questions have been asked in the survey conducted through telephone, along with this, many parameters of academic research are also incomplete. In such a situation, if no clarification is presented by the company, then necessary action will be taken.
