Parliament Committee visits Bharosa centre
The Hindu
The Committee appreciated and lauded the efforts made by the Hyderabad City Police
Members of Parliament Committee for Women Safety visited the Bharosa Centre of Hyderabad City Police.
They interacted with Commissioner of Police Anjani Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Police(Crimes & SIT) Shikha Goel, and Additional DCP Sirisha Raghavendra. The committee led by Dr. Heena Vijay Kumar Gavit, were explained the functioning of the Bharosa Centre, Child Friendly Court, Counselling Centres and all the facilities such as Legal Services, Counselling Services, Medical facilities, Child Recreation Room, Victim compensation services for POCSO and Rape cases etc, which is under one roof and is perhaps the only place in the country to have such facility. The Committee appreciated and lauded the efforts made by the Hyderabad City Police in this regard, police said.
In the last 6 years the Bharosa centre have touched the lives of more than 10,000 victim families including DV cases 7,536, POCSO cases 1,438, rape cases 465, other cases 973, totalling to 10,412.
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.