NEW DELHI:The Government has set up one-
stop centres in 33 states and Union Territories across the
country under the Nirbhaya Fund and provided Rs 2,250 crore
under 29 programmes to ensure women safety, Rajya Sabha was
informed Thursday.
Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Women
and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said the
government has also set up 1,023 fast track courts under the
Nirbhaya fund for providing early justice to the aggrieved
women.
“The Nirbhaya Fund was set up in 2013 and till July 17,
2019, Rs 2,250 crore in funds have been sent to states to
implement 29 programmes for ensuring women safety,” she told
the House.
She lamented that till 2014, only one project towards
women safety was approved but that too was not implemented.
Irani said one-stop centres are being set up in 33 states
and UTs and a total of 2.20 lakh women have been helped so far
in the country through such centres.
She said the Nirbhaya Fund is being managed directly by
the Finance ministry and funds are cleared by it, while an
empowered committee headed by the Secretary, Ministry of Women
and Child Development, only gives its comments on whether the
projects come under the purview of the Fund.
In her written reply, the minister said the Nirbhaya
Framework provides for a non-lapsable corpus fund for safety
and security of women to be administered by the Department of
Economic Affairs (DEA) of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) of the
Government of India.
“Setting up of special courts is under the domain of
State Governments and High Courts. However, as part of the
proposed National Mission for Safety of women (NMSW), a Scheme
on the lines of other Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) for
setting up Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) has been
formulated for expeditious trial and disposal of pending cases
of rape and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences
(POCSO), Act.
“The Empowered Committee (EC) of Officers constituted
under the Framework for Nirbhaya Fund has appraised the
project for setting up of FTSCs at a total financial outlay of
Rs 767.25 crores,” she said in her reply. (AGENCIES)
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