(a) whether the Government is considering to set up One Stop Centres across 10 missions around the world to provide assistance to Indian women who are survivors of gender based violence;
(b) if so the details thereof;
(c) whether it is also true that this proposal is being implemented in view of the large number of complaints received from overseas Indian women; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
(SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)
(a) to (d): The Indian Missions across the world have provisions for assisting distressed Indian women including survivors of gender based violence. However, to augment such facilities, the Empowered Committee (EC) under the Framework for Nirbhaya Fund has appraised a proposal to set up facilities in Missions/ Posts in countries having significant proportion of diaspora such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman (Muscat), Qatar (Doha), UAE (Dubai), Saudi Arabia (Jeddah and Riyadh), and at Australia, Singapore and Canada (Toronto) on the lines of One Stop Centres (OSCs) for the welfare of Indian women.
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