ANSWER
MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
(SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)
(a) The details of cases registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 in the last three reports of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in Maharashtra, district-wise is at Annexure-I.
(b) As per the information provided by NCRB, a total of 34505, 36022 and 32608 cases were registered under POCSO Act, 2012 during the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively accounting for increase of 4.4% in 2016 over 2015 and decrease of 9.48% in 2017 over 2016.
(c) In furtherance to the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018, the Government has finalized a scheme in August 2019 for setting up of a total of 1023 Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) across the country for expeditious trial and disposal of pending cases pertaining to rape and POCSO Act, 2012, in a time-bound manner under Centrally Sponsored Scheme. The Scheme is for one year over two financial years i.e. 2019-20 and 2020-21.
(d) Section 43 of the POCSO Act, 2012 provides that the Central Government and every State Government shall take all measures to give wide publicity to the provisions of the Act. In accordance with this, the Government has taken various steps from time to time to create awareness of the provisions of the POCSO Act through electronic and print media, consultations, workshops and training programmes with stakeholders concerned. In order to generate awareness about the POCSO Act, a short clip (duration 45 seconds) on POCSO Act was disseminated in Cinema Halls and Doordarshan across the nation from 02.10.2019 to 08.10.2019. Minister, Women and Child Development (WCD) has written to all the Chief Ministers, Members of Parliament, and Heads of local Bodies/Panchayati Raj Institutions to take all necessary measures for effective implementation of the POCSO Act, 2012 as amended in 2019. Secretary, WCD has also written a letter to this effect to all the Secretaries of line Ministries and Chief Secretaries of all States/UTs.
Further, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCRs) are also mandated to monitor the implementation of the POCSO Act, 2012.
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Annexure-I
Statement Referred To In Part (a) of Reply To Lok Sabha Un-Starred Question No.4191 For Answer On 13.12.2019 Raised By SHRI DHAIRYASHEEL SAMBHAJIRAO MANE, DR. SUJAY RADHAKRISHNA VIKHE PATIL, DR. SHRIKANT EKNATHSHINDE on “REGISTERED CASES UNDER POCSO” indicating District-wise Crimes committed against Children under POCSO Act in Maharashtra during 2015-2017
SL District 2015 2016 2017
1 Ahmednagar 99 150 95
2 Akola 86 51 108
3 Amravati Commr. 66 100 85
4 Amravati Rural 191 171 148
5 Aurangabad Commr. 108 139 116
6 Aurangabad Rural 66 50 67
7 Beed 92 53 70
8 Bhandara 38 51 52
9 Buldhana 92 90 98
10 Chandrapur 142 130 122
11 Dhule 39 50 32
12 Gadchiroli 33 24 38
13 Gondia 62 38 69
14 Hingoli 24 21 26
15 Jalgaon 102 113 70
16 Jalna 35 19 25
17 Kolhapur 97 99 122
18 Latur 56 53 64
19 Mumbai Commr. 881 979 1054
20 Mumbai Railway 9 14 14
21 Nagpur Commr. 206 152 209
22 Nagpur Railway 3 2 5
23 Nagpur Rural 75 90 124
24 Nanded 57 63 86
25 Nandurbar 26 31 24
26 Nasik Commr. 47 48 62
27 Nasik Rural 130 97 95
28 Navi Mumbai 115 143 138
29 Osmanabad 52 72 66
30 Palghar 125 134 167
31 Parbhani 40 53 65
32 Pune Commr. 351 351 427
33 Pune Railway 5 0 4
34 Pune Rural 167 232 190
35 Raigad 93 53 58
36 Ratnagiri 38 53 48
37 Sangli 74 86 89
38 Satara 135 137 139
39 Sindhudurg 24 14 18
40 Solapur Commr. 32 36 65
41 Solapur Rural 113 120 171
42 Thane Commr. 285 224 272
43 Thane Rural 47 92 78
44 Wardha 90 70 84
45 Washim 43 16 30
46 Yavatmal 125 51 59
Total District(s) 4816 4815 5248
Source: Crime in India
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