OSCs helping violence affected women : Maneka

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New Delhi : Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi  inaugurated the two -day National Workshop on ‘Role of Sakhi One Stop Centres (OSCs) in strengthening Multi Sectoral Response to Violence in New Delhi’. The workshop has been organized by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Around 400 Sakhi- One Stop Centre functionaries and nodal officials from State Department of Women and Child Development from 33 States/UTs across the country are participating at the two- day workshop.

Addressing the participants, WCD Minister Maneka Sanjay Gandhi said that the One Stop Centre Scheme is a highly critical intervention to protect and help women affected by violence. Keeping in view the importance of the scheme, it has to be ensured that the OSCs are run in a professional and efficient manner and complete empathy has to be shown for the women in distress who are visiting the centres. The purpose of the OSCs is to provide safe and pleasant environment to such women, she added, according to a PIB release.

The Minister further said that the first One Stop Centre was setup in Raipur, Chattisgarh, and within a short span of its working, it became a lifeline for women in distress. Since then, large number of OSCs have been set in several states across the country. The WCD Minister said that the Ministry of Women & Child Development is regularly monitoring the working of these centres and for capacity building of the staff managing these centres, the WCD Ministry will evolve a high level training course for each category i.e. may it be for nurses or psychologists or lawyers or policemen etc. She also urged the administrators of OSCs to give a continuous feedback to the Ministry regarding the issues and problem so that they can be addressed in a timely manner.