Centre Approves Rs 100 Cr to Set Up Women Help Desks in Police Stations across the country

Centre Approves Rs 100 Cr to Set Up Women Help Desks in Police Stations across the country

Guwahati: In a bid to curb the increasing cases of crimes again women, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sanctioned Rs 100 crore from the ‘Nirbhaya’ fund to set up women help desks with lady police officers in all police stations across the country.

The women help desks would focus on making police stations more women-friendly and approachable, as they would be the first and single point of contact for any woman walking into a police station; a home ministry statement dated December 5 stated.

As per official reports, the new scheme will be implemented in all police stations across all the States and Union Territories with all lady police officers.

The Nirbhaya Fund was created in 2013 after the dastardly Delhi gang rape and murder case, 2012 in a bid to set up and strengthen the women's help desks in police stations.

The lady officials of women help desks would be trained to be sensitive towards women approaching them. These help desks would have experts like lawyers, psychologists and NGOs on board to facilitate legal aid, counselling, shelter, rehabilitation and training among others.

The approval came in the wake of the gang-rape incident where a veterinarian in mid-twenties was smothered, raped then burnt by four men on November 27 near Hyderabad.

Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Police has been chalking out plans to develop Lucknow as a 'safe city' by developing the state capital scientifically using the 'Nirbhaya Fund'. A sum of Rs 67.75 crore from the Nirbhaya Fund has already been spent to check crimes against women in the city.

There will be 110 Pink Patrol bikes which will be driven by women are being given under the Nirbhaya Fund. In addition to that, 100 Pink booths will be set up where women police will be deployed so that women can file complaints easily.

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