Bolster Capacity To Deal With Crime Against Women: Centre To States, UTs
NDTV
The ministry communicated its agenda emphasizing the need to provide better security to women across the country through a recent circular to all the Chief Secretaries, Home Secretaries, Directors General of Police in all States and the UTs.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has directed all the States and the Union Territories (UTs) to focus on strengthening their capacity to deal with cases of crime against women.
The MHA has also sought a "status note" on the ground level implementation of the directions issued focusing on women security, requesting that "suitable direction may be issued for early commencement of the action and continuous monitoring in the matter regularly to calibrate the action".
The ministry communicated its agenda emphasizing the need to provide better security to women across the country through a recent circular to all the Chief Secretaries, Home Secretaries, Directors General of Police in all States and the UTs.
Issuing the circular last week, the MHA also mentioned eight of its advisories issued to all the States and the UTs between May 10, 2013, to June 30, 2021, asking to draw their attention towards the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) linked to crimes against women.
