WCD Min stresses on training special mahila police volunteers

Special Mahila Police Volunteers (MPVs) Scheme, an initiative for facilitating police force through community women volunteerism, and other welfare for them measures were discussed by the Parliamentary Consultative Panel of Women and Child Development Ministry on Thursday.

“Appreciating the initiative of MPVs, the Committee members suggested that the candidates should be given good training to make the scheme fully beneficial for women. The members of the Committee suggested to identify those people for MPVs who could understand the victim’s problems and facilitate women in distress guide them properly,” an official release said.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi responded positively to the suggestions from the Committee members and said that the MPVs should report the incidence of violence against women, domestic violence and dowry harassment.

She said that the MPVs will be given identity cards to authorise their identity and engagement with public. The contribution of the MPVs will be rewarded annually, the Minister added.

The other measures discussed by the committee included ‘One Stop Centre’ for women affected by violence, Women Helpline across the country with the single number ‘181’ to meet women’s emergency and non-emergency needs and ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’.