From the past few years, women's are harassed and threatened everywhere in our society crime rate are increasing like rape, acid attack, chain snatching. Here is measurable ppt which can help them out.
3. INTRODUCTION
IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES FOR STATE GOVERNMENTS / UT
ADMINISTRATIONS
Ministry of Women and Child Development Government of India New
Delhi July, 2016
The Scheme of Universalisation of Women Helpline is intended to provide
24 hours immediate and emergency response to women affected by
violence.
4. PURPOSE OF THE
IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES
Support all stakeholders/agencies involved in
implementing the Scheme.
Intended to serve effective reference manual for
officials at National and State/ Union Territory (UT)
levels for policy guidance and monitoring.
Lays down monitoring and reporting formats to be
used at different levels.
5. OBJECTIVES
Provide toll-free 24-hours telecom service.
Facilitate crisis and non-crisis intervention to the
appropriate agencies such as police/ Hospitals /
Ambulance services /District Legal Service Authority
(DLSA)/Protection Officer (PO)/OSC.
Provide information about support services, government
schemes and programmes available to the woman affected
by violence.
6. TARGET GROUP & LOCATION
Woman or girl facing violence within public or private
sphere .
WHL have short code 181number using existing helplines
working at the State/UT level.
States/UTs have option of locating Helpline Centre in
capital or in any other city as requirement.
7. SERVICES
1 -Violence Against Women (VAW) – aggrieved woman (AG) or somebody
contact WHL, her information attended by call responder .
If woman needs rescued from violent situation then PCR Van or
ambulance from nearest police station or hospital/ 108 service would be
dispatched.
2- Information of Women Empowerment Schemes and programmes - WHL
provide information about laws, existing schemes and government programs
related to women empowerment and protection.
WHL also provide guidance about processes to be adopted for accessing
benefits of schemes and programs.
8. HELPLINE MANAGER
The Helpline Manager will be in charge for the overall smooth functioning
of WHL.
She will ensure prompt and meaningful response towards every call
received at the Helpline.
She will directly intervene in heinous cases in collaboration with state
agencies.
She will be responsible for making schedules for active 24 hours a day
seven day a week.
She will be responsible for taking daily, weekly and monthly report
preparing periodical reports.
She will conduct awareness generation activities within community to raise
awareness around WHL.
She will be responsible for day to day management of WHL team and
reporting to Director, WCD and any other competent authority as and when
required.
9. Accessing Women Helpline
Women Helpline will be accessible 24 hours a day 7 days a
week to any woman or girl suffering violence or in distress in
the following manner
Telephone - landlines, mobile phones through calls, SMS/text
messaging, mobile apps and fax messages.
Internet - emails, web-posts, web-interface, social networking
sites i.e. web page, facebook, twitter, etc.
10. Benefits of Women Helpline Scheme:
Help at any place: Provided to any lady in trouble within
2 min and on spot with the help of tracking mechanism of
the app.
Single call instant help: While using the app the woman
as soon as call gets connected to the number tracking
starts and police is there.
Alert message to the close one: With police, women’s
family person will also get notified about the help request
she raised.
11. Eligibility of Women Helpline Scheme:
There is no eligibility for this scheme.
Only the requirement is that the lady should register herself at
the service center for the service so that at the time of help right
person gets notified.
12. Drawbacks
Operators wait for the caller to give her address, the proposal
document prepared by the Union women and child
development ministry acknowledges.
If the caller is not able to convey her location, then there is a
possibility that the responding unit may not locate her.
13.
14. Sustained increase of women
meeting violent deaths
Harassment
Prolonged abuse
Psychological pressure
Physical and sexual
violence
Femicide
Social Indifference
Limited institutional
response capacity
Four decades of
internal armed conflict
A total of 4,602 cases of
women meeting violent
deaths are registered
between 2001 to 2009 Source: PNC, 2007.