Fifteen projects of Centre and State Governments have been appraised and recommended under the Nirbhaya fund: Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

The Ministry of Finance, Government of India had set up a dedicated fund called Nirbhaya Fund for implementation of initiatives aimed at enhancing the safety and security for women in the country with a corpus of Rs. 1000 crore. An additional amount of Rs 1000 cr. was provided in 2014-15 for Nirbhaya Fund.  The corpus transferred to the Public Account for the Nirbhaya fund upto 2015-16 is Rs. 2000 Crore.

The Ministry of Women & Child Development being the nodal Ministry for appraisal and recommendation of projects under Nirbhaya had received proposals from various Ministries/Departments. The total of fifteen projects of Central & State Governments have been appraised and recommended under the Nirbhaya fund. They are as follows:

Name of the Ministry	Name of the Proposal
Ministry of Home Affairs	Central Victim Compensation Fund (CVCF) with project cost of Rs. 200.00 Crore
	Investigative Units for Crime against Women (IUCAW) with project cost of Rs. 324.00 Crore.
	Cyber Crime Prevention against Women & Children (CCPWC) with project cost of Rs. 244.32 Crore.
	National Emergency Response System (NERS)  with total project cost of Rs.321.69 crore.
	Organized Crime Investigative Agency (OCIA) with project cost of Rs. 83.20 Crore.
Delhi Police	Hiring of  Professional Counsellors at the District and Sub- Divisional Police Station Level in Delhi with project cost of Rs. 6.20 Crore.
	New building with women centric facilities for Special Unit for Women & Children (SPUWAC) and Special Unit for North East Region (SPUNER) at Nanakpura, New Delhi with project cost of Rs.23.53 Crore.
Ministry of Railway	Integrated Emergency Response Management System  (IERMS) with total project cost of Rs. 500.00 Crore.
Transport Department, Govt. of NCT of Delhi	Installation of CCTV Cameras and GPS devices in 6655 buses (DTC + Cluster) to strengthen the safety of women in public transport buses costing Rs. 140.00 Crore.
	Installation of CCTV Cameras through Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (DTIDCL) in 100 strategic located modern stainless steel bus queue shelters to strengthen safety of women costing Rs. 1.87 Crore.
Andhra Pradesh Transport Department	Andhra Pradesh’s Government’s ABHAYA PROJECT for Safety of Women and  Girl Child in public transport with total project cost of Rs. 138.49 Cr.
Mahila Police Volunteer, Government of Haryana	Engagements of Mahila Police Volunteers (MPVs) in State as a unique initiative to create public police interface to facilitate outreach on issues related to violence against women and children.  The proposal piloted for Karnal and Mohindergarh District of Haryana with costing of  Rs. 1.29 Cr.
Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD)	The ministry is implementing the scheme of setting of One Stop Centre (OSC) for women affected by violence with the total project cost of Rs. 18.58 Cr. To cover more districts the scheme has been extended for setting up of One Stop Centre in 150 additional locations in its second phase during 2016-17 with the revised cost of  Rs. 119.71 crore.
	Universalisation of Women Helpline with total project cost of Rs. 69.49 crore.
Department of Electronic and Information Technology (DeitY)	Development & Field Testing of Panic Switch based Safety Device for   Cars and Buses for aiding Women's Safety with a project cost of Rs. 3.499 Crore.

 The above mentioned recommended projects are at different levels of implementation and fund is utilized as per the requirement of the project.

This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

Courtesy: pib.nic.in