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Mamata seeks safe city project for Kolkata under Nirbhaya Fund
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SME Times News Bureau | 13 Feb, 2018
Kolkata will become a "safe city" for women with West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking the measure to ensure safety and
security to women from the Nirbhaya Fund, an Central government official
said on Monday.
"For the first time, Mamata Banerjee had sent
her team to attend meetings of Ministry of Home Affairs and suggested
proposals for utilisation of funds from Nirbhaya Fund and 'safe city'
project is a part of it," a Union Women Child and Development Ministry
official told IANS.
According to the ministry, seven more cities,
apart from Kolkata have been finalised for safe city projects under
Nirbhaya Fund and these are New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad,
Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.
"The project cycle has been
fixed for four years and the expenditure from the fund will happen
accordingly. The amount allocated cannot be utilised overnight," the
official added.
Union Women Child and Development Minister Maneka
Gandhi, addressing a press conference, said that Banerjee had earlier
refused to implement 'One Stop Centres' (OSC) in her state despite being
approached by her ministry.
The OSC scheme, started in 2015
under Nirbhaya Fund, are supposed to provide access to services like
medical aid, police assistance, legal aid and psycho-social counselling
to victims of sexual assaults.
Asked about the utilisation of
Nirbhaya Fund, Gandhi said that funds will only be disbursed if the
schemes are actually meant for providing safety to women.
"We
are just waiting for good ideas to come in. There is money under
Nirbhaya Fund and it is being utilised but I am strict. WCD is using the
fund where I find that those funds will make a difference to women and
where it won't, I am not going to approve," she said.
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