Need Of Intensive Awareness Campaign On Sakhi-One Stop Centres : Ghanshyam Thori

Jalandhar : Stressing on the need to run an intensive awareness campaign about Sakhi-One Stop Centers to ensure assistance to every woman victim of Gender-based violence, Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said that the One-Stop Centres ensure the protection of the rights of females’ who are victims of such violence and provide adequate assistance leading to justice to them.Participating in a state-level virtual training workshop on ‘One Stop Centre’ organized by the Department of Social Security, Women and Child Development, Deputy Commissioner also spoke on Gender-based violence in Punjab, causes and prevention strategies for Better State Response.Ghanshyam Thori said that One Stop Centre provides free medical and legal aid, police assistance, temporary shelter including psychological counseling to the women victims of domestic violence, acid attack, or any kind of violence under one roof. He said that concrete steps are being taken to create awareness among women on a large scale.He said that Jalandhar one-stop centre has provided a healing touch to around 380 such victims of domestic violence, exploitation, and others, and 360 complaints were also settled through counseling.
He said that the one-stop centre here has also been integrated with the 181- women helpline of Punjab Police.The workshop was kick-started with the inaugural words by Principal Secretary SSWCD Department Raji P Shrivastava following which Director Vipul Ujjwal also addressed.