COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

and other social concerns. The main objective of
awareness generation camps is to identify the needs of
rural and poor women and to increase women’s active
participation in development and other allied programmes.
1.28 The scheme of Condensed Course of Education aims
to provide educational opportunities to girls/women above
the age of 15 years alongwith additional inputs of skill
development/vocational training. The contents of the course
are need based and modified according to local requirement.
1.29 The scheme of Family Counselling Centre provides
counseling, referral and rehabilitative services to women
and children who are victims of atrocities, family
maladjustments etc.The centers work in close
collaboration with local administrator, police, courts,
medical institutions etc.
1.30 Some of the Family Counseling Centres are being
run at Police Headquarters, Mahila Jails, Rape Crisis
Intervention Centres, Pre-Marital Counseling Centre and
Centre for Devdasis/ Red Light Areas.
Gender Justice and Legal Safeguards
Attending to complaints relating to atrocities on
women, review of central acts concerning women
1.31 Safeguarding the interest of women covering all
aspects of women’s rights is a mandate of National
Commission for women (NCW). NCW receives and
attends to complaints received from women. NCW has
also sponsored many workshops, awareness programmes,
legal awareness programmes and Parivarik Mahila Lok
Adalats concerning women related issues. Online
registration of complaints has been started at
www.ncw.nic.in with effect from 9 th Sept. 2005. The
National Commission for women conceptualized a nation
wide programme titled ‘CHALO GAON KI ORE’ in
February, 2006. The programme is a step towards
empowerment of the rural woman throughout the country
with knowledge of their rights under the law. The
programme has been launched in the States of Punjab,
Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Tripura.
1.32 There are about 44 Central Acts concerning or
impacting women of which 41 acts have been reviewed
by the National Commission for Women for their
efficiency and removing gender discriminatory provisions.
Legislation on Domestic Violence, Bill on
prevention of sexual harassment of women
at workplace
1.33 To fulfill the commitment made in the National
Common Minimum Programme regarding enactment of
legislation on domestic violence, the Ministry of Women
& Child Development has enacted the “Protection of women
from domestic violence Act, 2005” which is a
comprehensive legislation to protect women from all forms
of domestic violence. This act has been brought into force
on 26.10.2006 and it provides immediate and emergent relief
to women who face situation of violence in their homes.
The protection of women from domestic violence rules,
2006 have also been notified as per the provisions contained
in the act. The code of criminal procedure has been amended
through CrPC amendment Act, 2005 w.e.f. 23.6.2006 to
provide that no women shall be arrested after sunset and
before sunrise and where exceptional circumstances exist,
the women police officer shall, by making a written report,
obtain the prior permission of the judicial magistrate of the
first class within whose local jurisdiction, the offence is
committed or the arrest is to be made.
1.34 The Ministry is examining a Bill on prevention of
sexual harassment of women at the workplace to give effect
to the guidelines and norms laid down by the Supreme
Court in the Vishaka judgement.
Rehabilitation of Victims of Rape
1.35 The Supreme Court, in a judgement dated 19.10.94,
had directed the Government to evolve a scheme to
mitigate the sufferings of victims of rape and to constitute
Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to pay them
compensation. It is in this context that the new scheme
‘Scheme for relief and rehabilitation of victims of rape’ is
being formulated. The scheme is proposed to be
administered by the National Commission for Women and
has broadly two components. The first component is the
constitution of a Criminal Injuries Relief and
Rehabilitation Board at every district to award
compensation to the victims; the second component calls
for district monitoring committees to provide shelter,
protection, legal and medical aid and rehabilitation to the
victims. The scheme has been included in the report of
the working group on empowerment of women for the
XIth Plan. The scheme is under examination of the
Ministry in consultation with other line Ministries
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