Women’s helpline number receives maximum calls from ‘this’ state

Last updated Dec 10, 2018

New Delhi: NP NEWS24 ONLINE – According to Union women and child development ministry’s data till November 2018, over more than 4 lakh women in Gujarat called the government women’s helpline number 180 over last three years.

Whereas, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh received the maximum number of complaints by women at government One Stop Centres (OSCs) with 26,884 and 21,747 complaints, respectively.

According to the data, the women helpline at Gujarat has received around 435,378 complaints by women till November, while Uttar Pradesh got 314,455 complaints, Bihar (377,917), Andhra Pradesh (393,676), Telangana (275,324) and Punjab (106,622).

193,527 OSC cases in total have been registered, while 2,023,111 effective calls on government’s women helpline number were registered since 2015 across all states and Union territories.

According to Women child development department secretary, Rakesh Srivastava, “ The ministry has sanctioned over 600 OSCs till now, of which 232 are operational so far. The Prime Minister had said there should be one in all 718 districts of India.”

The scheme of universalizing the women helpline number was implemented in April 2015 to provide 24×7 response to women affected by violence.

Till Friday, the helpline number received 480,000 calls among which 25.61% cases were regarding domestic violence, 5.7% cases were of alcohol abuse, 4.4% cases were trouble faced in the locality and 1.9% cases of sexual assaults and shockingly, there were 553 rape cases and 517 child marriage. The authorities made sure every cases has FIR registered.

Among OSC complaints filed by women, Chhattisgarh recorded 10,868 cases, Telangana (7,807), Rajasthan (4,964), Haryana (3,878) and 3,755 in Bihar.

OSCs are implemented to support women affected by violence, in private and public spaces, within the family, community and at workplace. Women facing physical, sexual, emotional, psychological and economic abuse are facilitated with support and redressal at these centres.