National Policy on Women՚s Safety (Important)

Ministry of Women & Child Development has been furnished Action Plan, which covers legal & schematic interventions to enhance safety of Women. Ministry of Home Affairs has set up Division on Women՚s Safety to give focused attention to safety of women in country.

Crimes Against Women

Interventions have components:

  • To strengthen implementation of legislations including those on prohibition of child marriage, indecent representation of women, protect women against domestic violence, POCSO, trafficking, & prevention & prohibition of sexual harassment.
  • Implement schematic interventions including those for women to prevent violence & improve status of girl child, involving community for safe neighborhood, setting up One-Stop Centers in each district for counselling & providing first-aid to women victims of violence, setting up universal Helpline 181, increase working women hostels, strengthen child care institutions for rehabilitation of victims of violence, & strengthen grievance redressal.
  • Convergence of various projects under implementation for women safety & rehabilitation under Nirbhaya scheme including, setting up Emergency Response Support system, Mahila Police Volunteers, Cyber-crime portal, strengthening forensic facilities, & other women safety projects for increasing public safety. Implementation of Action Plan is continuous process.

EMERGENCY RESPONSE SUPPORT SYSTEM (ERSS- Justice Verma Committee)

  • Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has accepted recommendations of Justice Verma Committee in backdrop of unfortunate incident of Nirbhaya in December2012 & has approved national project by name of Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) , earlier referred as Nationwide Emergency Response System (NERS) , w⟋budgetary provision of ₹ 321.69 Cr. w⟋view to introduce Pan-India Single Emergency Response Number 112 to address all kinds of distress calls such as police, fire & ambulance etc.

Objectives

  • Providing single emergency response number across country.
  • Providing 24 × 7 efficient & effective response system which can receive input from various voice & data services such as voice call, SMS, email, Internet of Things, panic buttons in public transport etc. to attend to citizen in distress.
  • Identification of location of person in distress connecting thru voice or data.
  • Automated response system for timely dispatch of field resources (police) to location of incidence using system.
  • GPS (Global Positioning System) enabled dispatch of vehicles to locate nearest vehicles.
  • Integration w⟋existing Dial 100, Dial 108 & other emergency response systems.
  • Integrate w⟋other relevant systems like CCTNS etc. connect to TSP՚s (Telecom Service Provider) databases to update subscriber information & to connect to GMLC (Gateway Mobile Location Centre) for location update.
  • Provide standardized & easy to use mobile apps, IoT enabled applications on Pan-India basis.

Cybercrime Reporting Portal

  • Portal is initiative of GoI under National Mission for safety of women by utilizing Nirbhaya funds, to facilitate victims⟋complainants to report cybercrime complaints online.
  • Portal caters to complaints pertaining to online Child Pornography (CP) ⟋ Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) or sexually explicit content such as Rape⟋Gang Rape (CP⟋RGR) content.
  • Complaints reported on this portal are dealt by respective police authorities of States⟋UTs based on information in complaints provided by complainants.

Examrace Team at Aug 20, 2021