Only Rs 600 crore utilized against Rs 3000 crore allotted in Nirbhaya fund for women-centric projects

#NirbhayaFund #delhi When action should speak more than words, it is sheer apathy that out of Rs 3000 crore sanctioned in Nirbhaya fund to take up womencentric projects, only Rs 600 crores have been utilized in three years. This has been reported by an official of the Women and Child Development WCD ministry.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 1 February 2016.

The fund was created in 2013 to support initiatives by the government and NGOs working towards women's safety and welfare measures. The reason was the gangrape and beastly torture of a young woman in a moving bus in Delhi. There were protests, candle light march and the victim was sent abroad for treatment but she did not survive.
The official of Women Child Development ministry is, at present, working on two projects under the fund -- a one-stop center for distressed women at a cost of Rs 18.58 crore and universalisation of a women helpline at the cost of Rs 69.49 crore. So far, funds amounting to Rs 10.71 crore have been released in respect of one-stop centres and Rs 13.92 crore sanctioned for the helpline," the official added.
In addition, two more projects are being implemented by the Union Home Ministry. These are creation of Rs 200-crore Central Victim Compensation Fund (CVCF) and Investigative Units for Crime against Women (IUCAW) in all police districts of the country at a cost of Rs 324 crore.
Incidentally, CVCF and IUCAW were launched in 2015 by the Home Ministry to support victims of rape, acid attack and human trafficking and to augment the capacity of state governments to investigate heinous crimes against women respectively. Various programs to be implemented under the Nirbhaya fund are worked out by an empowered committee which is chaired by the WCD Secretary.
The committee consists of the Finance and the Home secretaries, representatives of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Department of Electronics and IT, Department of Economic Affairs and the Chairman of the Railway Board. However, why only Rs 600 crore is uitilised against Rs 300 crore in three years is a question that the authorities would need to answer. The amount could have been distributed to all the states to take up local projects for safety of the women. Have the planners run out of ideas?


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