Report cases on time: MSCW
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 26 2018:
Expressing serious concern over gross negligence on the part of the families, relatives and all concerned in filing reports concerning cases of missing women at the respective police stations, Manipur State Commission for Women (MSCW) has appealed to all to report to the nearest police stations if there is any incidence of women who go missing.
The Commission conveyed that it has identified 14 cases and 25 cases of missing women in the State in 2016 and 2017 respectively and informed that the number of such cases has reached 14 this year.
The Commission also stated that none of the missing women cases it identified since 2016, had any missing reports in the police stations concerned.
Addressing a press meet at the office chamber of MSCW at Lamphelpat today, the Commission's Chairperson Dr K Sobita Devi also highlighted that it had solved 146 women related cases out of the 198 registered cases from June 23,2016, (since the day she was appointed to her post).
She went on to state that one case among the registered cases is in temporary suspension while 51 other cases are going on/running.
Saying that many married women, who are victims of domestic violence, often delay in reporting to the Commission, Sobita also expressed shock that many under aged married women (below 18 years) usually wait to attain 18 years of age for reporting domestic violence committed against them.
She pointed that there is an urgent need for sensitizing the masses, most importantly the parents in rural areas, about the prohibition of child marriage in the State.
Maintaining that a help line number (181) was opened for women on June 23 with the main objective of redressing women in distress in the State, Sobita further said that the Commission was able to register 305 women related complaints made through the help line number.
The Commission has also conducted 94 spot enquires and 18 legal awareness programme in different districts since June 23, 2016 till date, apart from opening a legal aid clinic at the office premises of Manipur State Commission for Women.
Emphasizing the importance of making women, especially those who are being stigmatized by the society, empowered socially, economically and politically, Sobita informed that vocational training courses will be conducted for women jail inmates in the prisons of the State.
She continued that the Commission will consult the State's Education Minister for inclusion of moral science as compulsory subject upto class XII as well as to include self defense training programme for every school and college going girls.
Like done in the past, Manipur State Women Commission will continue to organize seminars and workshops on various topics related to women apart from legal awareness programmes in various parts of the State, she added.