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Home Ministry indifferent to Nirbhaya Fund projects

In the absence of any self-appraisal, the women and child development, which is the nodal ministry of the Fund, was left to carry out the appraisal based on its own findings

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In what can be perceived as nonchalance to the reinforcement of women's safety in the country, the Home Ministry has refrained from sending remarks on the progress it has made on projects sanctioned under the Nirbhaya Fund to the review committee. In the absence of any self-appraisal, the women and child development, which is the nodal ministry of the Fund, was left to carry out the appraisal based on its own findings.

An official of the WCD ministry said reminders have led to no concrete response. This is not the first time the review committee, which convenes almost every month, has asked the Home Ministry to speed up projects. WCD minister Maneka Gandhi had shot off letters to the ministry and other ministries to speed up the progress of these projects in December.

The projects under the home ministry sanctioned under the Nirbhaya Fund include a central helpline called the the National Emergency Response System (NERS) under a project cost of Rs 321.69 crore, the Organized Crime Investigative Agency (OCIA), with a project cost of Rs 83.20 crore, the Central Victim Compensation Fund which is a corpus of Rs.200 crore to be disbursed to states for victim compensation under section 357A of the CrPC, and the Cyber Crime Prevention against Women & Children (CCPWC), a project under which an online portal was to be built by the cyber cell of the home ministry along with the WCD ministry for Rs 244.32 crore.

While the NERS was in cold storage because of a technical glitch, the OCIA was clubbed with the anti-human trafficking. The CCPWC plans to form an online cyber crime reporting platform, a national cyber forensic laboratory, and research and development for new tools, training and capacity building and is slated to finish by 2018. In reply to a standing committee, the home ministry said that over 42,000 personnel are being trained for the project.

UP FOR REVIEW

  • Under the Rs 3,000 crore corpus, over 18 proposals were received by the Empowered Committee in 2016. Of these, 16 proposals were recommended. The committee is currently reviewing over 8 projects from various state departments.
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