Incidents of crime against women

Projects under Nirbhaya Fund

As per information received from National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, total number of crimes registered against women during the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 were 3,39,457, 329,243 and 3,38,954 respectively in the country, showing a mixed trend with a decline of 3.0% in 2015 over 2014 and an increase of 2.9 % in 2016 over 2015.

The Empowered Committee (EC) of Officers under Nirbhaya fund reviews projects and schemes received from various Ministries/ Departments and States/UTs under Nirbhaya Fund from time to time. The different projects are at various stages of implementation and they are monitored and reviewed from time to time by the Empowered Committee.

Ministry of Railways is also implementing a project, namely Integrated Emergency Response Management System (IERMS)appraised and recommended by Empowered Committee in November, 2016 for Rs. 500 Crore, out of which Rs. 150 Crore has already been released.

Under the ‘Safe City Project’, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has recently appraised projects worth Rs. 2,919.55 Cr. under the Nirbhaya Fund for eight major cities, namely Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Chennai. Details of projects under Nirbhaya Fund are given below:

Ministry	S. No.	Name of the Proposal
Ministry of Home Affairs		Emergency Response Support system
		Creation of Central Victim Compensation Fund (CVCF)
		Organized Crime Investigative Agency (OCIA)
		Cyber Crime Prevention against Women & Children (CCPWC)
		Proposal for providing facility of Social Workers/Counsellors at the District and Sub- Divisional Police Station Level in Delhi
		New building with women centric facilities for Special Unit for Women & Children (SPUWAC) and Special Unit for North East Region (SPUNER) at Nanakpura
		Proposal for implementing a ‘Safe City Project’ in Commissionerate Police, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack, Govt. of Odisha
		Various other activities under Delhi Police ‘Safety of Women’ Scheme
Ministry of Railways		Integrated Emergency Response Management System  (IERMS)
MeiTY/ IIT Delhi		Development & Field Testing of panic Switch based safety Device for Cars and Buses for aiding Women’s Safety
Ministry of Road   Transport & Highways		Abhaya Project Proposal for safety  of women and girl child, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
		Women’s safety in public transport, UPSRTC, Govt. of U.P.
		Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Govt. of Karnataka on Training women for heavy passengers vehicles
Ministry of Women and Child Development		One Stop Centre
		Universalisation of Women Helpline
		Mahila Police Volunteers: In the State of Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh
		Chirali Proposal, Women Empowerment Directorate
		Smart and safe Cities Free from Violence against Women and Girls’ Programme, Govt. of M.P.
		Safety and Security of Women, Govt. of Uttarakhand
		Nirbhaya Shelter Home, Govt. of Nagaland
		Safe City Proposal for 8 Cities- Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengluru, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.
		Establishment of a State-of-Art DNA Laboratory at CFSL, Chandigarh

This information was given by Union Minister for Women and Child Development, SmtManeka Sanjay Gandhi in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today(05.04.2018).

Courtesy:pib.nic.in