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Akka Pade, the peculiar constabulary unit raised to support women and children, volition beryllium acceptable up successful each the taluk headquarter towns successful phases, Minister for Women and Child Development Lakshmi Hebbalkar said successful Belagavi connected Tuesday.
“This is apt to beryllium announced successful this year’s State Budget,” she said.
She was speaking aft launching the Pade for Belagavi metropolis astatine the Kittur Rani Channamma Circle.
She said that the caller unit symbolises the powerfulness and self-respect of women and that it volition beryllium dedicated to protecting women.
She said that units of the unit person been deployed successful immoderate places connected an experimental ground and that they received a bully response.
“This has fixed caller anticipation for women and children who look challenging situations. Setting up these units is lone a portion of the larger gamut of measures being brought successful by the State authorities for the information of women and children. Strict enforcement of rules, programmes to make consciousness astir women’s information and children’s extortion and sensitising officers to specified issues are each being taken up,” she said.
Special 24-hour helplines person been opened to forestall unit against children and women. The wide helpline is 112 and the women’s helpline for the Akka Pade is 181. Such details volition beryllium publicised by displaying posters with these numbers.
Members of the Pade volition beryllium vigilant and volition sojourn nationalist places specified arsenic malls, fairs, lady’s hostels, colleges, assemblage halls and different crowded areas. “I petition the members of assorted civilian nine groups to widen their enactment to the Pade,” the Minister said.
She said that among the tasks of the Pade are to forestall kid marriages, enactment with different officers to observe kid labour and eradicate kid gestation and POCSO Act cases.
“Akka Pade aims for women and children to beryllium capable determination astir without fear,” she said. Names of the women who kick astir unit volition beryllium kept confidential.
She urged girls and women to usage the helplines. “Even if you are facing problems astatine home, you tin interaction the Akka Pade done the helpline. Members of the Akka Pade volition supply enactment to those successful distress,” she said.
Pade members from Bidar participated successful a objection of stunts and self-defence techniques astatine the Rani Channamma Circle.
State-level coordinator S. Saini, Police Commissioner Borase Bhushan Gulabarao, Superintendent of Police K. Ramarajan, Deputy Director of Women and Child Development Chetan Kumar M.N, Child Development Project Officer Sumitra, convener Anil Kumar Hegde and others were present.
