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Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Sunday (April 5, 2026) flagged problems related to the Centre's One Stop Centres (OSCs) that are intended to enactment women affected by unit and claimed that the "Modi authorities is not listening to anyone".
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Mr. Gandhi asserted that information is not simply a scheme; it is simply a cardinal work of the government.
"Women are knocking connected doors for help, yet the authorities has kept those doors shut. I asked successful Parliament: When a pistillate flees unit and reaches a One Stop Centre (OSC) - wherefore does she not person help? Why does she find the doors locked instead? Why is determination a shortage of staff? Why are complaints from crossed the state going unheard?" Mr. Gandhi said successful a station connected his WhatsApp channel.
"What was the government's response? That everything is 'satisfactory'. If everything is so 'satisfactory', past wherefore are reports of truthful galore problems regarding OSCs continuing to surface?" helium said.
If information is simply a priority, wherefore is assistance inactive failing to scope 3 retired of each 5 women, Mr. Gandhi asked.
"And wherefore is lone 60 paise retired of each Rs 100 allocated to the Ministry of Women and Child Development being spent connected OSCs?" the erstwhile Congress main said.
"Safety is not simply a scheme; it is simply a cardinal work of the government. Dismissing everything arsenic 'satisfactory' does not guarantee safety; it simply demonstrates that the Modi authorities is not listening to anyone," Mr. Gandhi said.
In his question successful Lok Sabha connected March 27, Mr. Gandhi had asked whether galore OSCs stay locked, non-functional/fail to run round-the-clock arsenic mandated, if so, the details thereof; and the fig of women who person sought assistance and structure astatine OSCs and the fig of cases of crimes against women registered during the past 5 years, State-wise and year-wise.
He besides asked astir the fig of operational OSCs and caller OSCs opened during the past 5 years, State-wise and year-wise; and the details of the funds released/utilised for OSCs during the said period, state-wise and year-wise, indicating the reasons for underutilisation.
He further asked astir the details of the sanctioned versus filled posts successful OSCs, including administrators, lawsuit workers, counsellors, aesculapian officers and police, State-wise; and whether the Ministry has examined complaints of mismanagement/violation of operational guidelines, if so, the details thereof on with the enactment taken thereon.
In her written reply to the question, Minister of State successful the Ministry of Women and Child Development Savitri Thakur said OSC is simply a constituent of the Sambal vertical nether the umbrella Mission Shakti and it provides integrated and contiguous enactment and assistance nether 1 extortion to women affected by unit and those successful distress, some successful backstage and nationalist spaces "It provides services similar aesculapian aid, ineligible assistance and advice, impermanent shelter, constabulary assistance and psycho-social counselling to needy women. Since inception, i.e. 1st April, 2015 up to 31st December, 2025, implicit 13.37 lakh women person been assisted successful the country," she said and besides shared the authorities and UT-wise details of OSCs.
The Minister said the wide implementation of the OSC strategy lies with the State governments and UT administrations.
"Two 3rd enactment evaluations of the schemes of the Ministry, including the Mission Shakti Umbrella Scheme and its components relating to One Stop Centres (OSCs) person been conducted successful 2020 and again successful 2025 done NITI Aayog. The studies person recovered the relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of the strategy arsenic satisfactory," Ms. Thakur said.
