COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

— Capacity building and training of community based
organizations, media, policy makers, law
enforcement, legislators etc. in the SAARC countries
on the major issues pertaining to trafficking and
relevant legislation ;
— Effectively put into place mechanisms for
repatriation of rescued victims back to their country
of origin;
— Put in place, mechanism for extradition of offenders
for all extraditable offences;
— Tighter border patrolling and sealing of porous
borders to prevent illegal migration, smuggling and
trafficking;
— Analyze inter country (both multi laterally or
bilaterally) broader issues that are offshoots of
trafficking – sex tourism, entertainment industry,
pornography in media etc.
— Also analyze the root causes of prostitution and
sexual exploitation such as poverty, illiteracy, lack
of employment, discrimination against women etc
and take measures to redress these shortcomings.
National Plan of Action for implementing the
National Policy for the Empowerment of
Women
2.31 The Government has adopted the National Policy
for the Empowerment of Women on 20 th March, 2001. The
main objective of this Policy is to bring about the
advancement, development and empowerment of women
and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women
and to ensure their active participation in all spheres of
public life and activities.
2.32 To ensure that the Policy prescriptions get
implemented, the Department is in the process of drafting
a Plan of Action (POA). Under the Policy’s operational
strategy, the Action Plan has to be drawn up with goals
achievable by the year 2010. The POA will also identify
commitment of resources and responsibilities for
implementation and strengthen institutional mechanisms
and structures for monitoring. The operational strategy also
mentions the need to develop Gender Development Index
as a method of gender auditing and stresses the importance
of collecting gender-disaggregated data which will be
useful for planning, implementation and monitoring.
Smt. Sonia Gandhi addresses the audience on 6 th March, 2007
at Ananya Festival. The highlight of the festival was the
hoisting of the women’s flag by Smt. Gandhi.
Scheme for relief and rehabilitation of
victims of rape
2.33 The Supreme Court, in a judgment dated 19-10-94,
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.
A meeting of the Committee of Secretaries (COS) was held
on 4-3-2005 to discuss the implementation of the Supreme
Court judgement. In pursuance of the decision taken in the
COS meeting, the NCW has formulated a scheme titled
‘Scheme for Relief and Rehabilitation of Victims of Rape,
2005’ providing for constitution of (i) Criminal Injuries
Relief and Rehabilitation Board at each and every district
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