Bundi: Organisations across the country running shelter homes for girls will soon be subjected to tight monitoring to ensure that no crime or abuse is committed at such facilities, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has said. NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma told reporters that she will write to the directors general of police of all states and other officials concerned to "initiate an inquiry into the functioning of shelter homes for girls in the country and to keep a constant vigil over their working".
The comments by Sharma came in the wake of a case in Jaipur in which five deaf and mute girls at a hostel run by an NGO were allegedly raped and beaten by staff at the facility. Violations against girls had been going on for a long time at Awaaz Foundation, Sharma said, adding that the NGO has now been blacklisted and its registration cancelled.
Expressing concern over the rise in crimes against woman, Sharma said that following the Delhi gangrape case of December 16 last year, NCW had started several programmes for sensitising people. "(We have) formed protection forces and taskforces that have started working with railway police to sensitise women passengers and staff at railway stations," Sharma said.
Another programme aims at training two officials from each police station in the country as part of a sensitisation drive, she added. Protests had rocked the country after a paramedical student was brutally gangraped on a moving bus in Delhi and died later
07:42 PM, May 21, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Unhappy over the probe by Crime Branch of state police into the mysterious death of a lady doctor in Puri in 2012, the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday suggested Odisha government to recommend a CBI probe into the matter. "We do not feel the state police is undertaking investigation into the death case involving a lady doctor in right way. Therefore, we suggest Odisha government to recommend...
01:46 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) chief Mamata Sharma on Friday said that she has taken note of the rape of a five-year-old in Delhi but surprisingly expressed inability to go and visit the family not before Saturday since it is a holiday on Friday. When confronted about action, Mamata claimed she cannot go and meet the child's family "because it is a holiday". In a grave reminder...
02:29 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) chief Mamata Sharma on Friday said that she has taken note of the rape of a five-year-old in Delhi but surprisingly expressed inability to go and visit the family not before Saturday since it is a holiday on Friday. When confronted about action, Mamata claimed she cannot go and meet the child's family "because it is a holiday". In a grave reminder...
02:29 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Differences, multiple opinions and oppositions yet again seemed to have delayed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill. The anti-rape Bill which promised strong legislation to curb crime against women, seems to be drowned under the Cabinet dithering. ...
11:20 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Chairman of National Commission for Women Mamata Sharma criticised the "deteriorating" law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh and asked the government to take some immediate action. ...
03:54 AM, Mar 04, 2013
Union Minister Shashi Tharoor may have put his foot in the mouth once again by suggesting that the new anti-rape law, which is under works, can be named after the Delhi braveheart, who succumbed to her injuries after battling for her life for over 12 days. ...
07:07 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday asked the government to take the strictest possible measures to ensure that there is no recurrence of incidents like the barbaric gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in the capital that has shaken the country. ...
10:20 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Jaipur: Rights activists on Thursday demanded removal of Mamta Sharma from the post of chairperson of National Commission for Women for her alleged insensitive remarks against women. "We demand from the Prime Minister and chairperson of the Congress party the removal of Mamata Sharma because never has the dignity of the National Women's Commission in the last twenty years been lowered so much as this time," the activists, including NAC...
01:44 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Guwahati: The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday sought action against bystanders in the Guwahati molestation case. It has also recommended CCTV cameras and special police pickets with women constables outside all pubs in Guwahati. NCW Chairperson Mamata Sharma, along with Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar, Member of National Commission for Women, met the Chief Minister of Assam on Wednesday at Guwahati and handed over the report along with the recommendation...
06:33 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Commenting on the Andhra Pradesh forced abortion incident, NCW Chairperson Mamata Sharma said that the 'baba' who ordered the act should be held. ...
01:34 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Jaipur: NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma on Saturday said the word 'sexy' should not be taken in a negative context as it means 'beautiful and charming', but her argument did not go down well with the BJP and women's organisations which termed her remark as shocking and demoralising for women. Speaking at a function, Mamta said that the word meant 'beautiful' and 'charming' so it should not be taken in negative...
08:12 AM, Feb 26, 2012
