MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI KRISHNA TIRATH)
(a) to (d) Yes, Madam. In their Order dated 20.10.2010 in W.P.(c) 5913/2010, the Hon’ble High Court of
Delhi has directed to the Govt. of NCT of Delhi to demarcate five secured shelter homes exclusively meant
for destitute women, pregnant and lactating women for their apposite care and in shelter homes, food and
medical facility shall be available for 24 hours. The Court also directed that the availability of the
facilities in such shelter homes shall be monitored by the helplines handled by professionally trained
people and the information about State Government’s scheme should be disseminated to the people. Besides,
the Court has further directed to the State Government to provide a mobile medical unit so that people in
slum areas can be taken to the shelter homes or to the hospital in need and the State Government shall
endeavour to involve genuine NGOs for implementation of such scheme.
(e) Govt. of NCT of Delhi is running one Short Stay Home i.e. ‘Alpavas Sadan’ and 6 short stay homes
through NGOs for women in distress in Delhi. Free food, shelter and medical facilities etc. are being
provided to the inmates in these shelter homes. All Short Stay Homes being administered by the Govt. of
NCT, Delhi, are having helpline operated by professionally qualified personnel. A mobile van helpline is
also being operated by an NGO namely ‘All India Women Conference’. Wide publicity of these facilities has
been proposed by Government of NCT of Delhi.
Apart from the above homes, two short stay homes and one women helpline are also functioning in
Delhi with financial assistance from the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India.
