Scheme Nirbhaya

·        Launched to protect the dignity and ensuring safety of women in India after the brutal gang rape of a Delhi student on Dec ’16, 2012.

·        Announced Rs.1000 crores in the union budget 2014 by Finance Minister P.Chidambaram to support initiative by the Government and NGOs.

·        Nirbhaya means ‘fearless’ is a pseudonym given to hide the victim’s actual identity.

·        A committee headed by former CJI of India, late Mr. J.S.Verma to make a report about the incident. The three men committee submitted their report within one month, on Jan ‘2013.

Ten key recommendations by the committee are.

i) Make Voyeurism, stalking and intentional touching an offence.

ii) Amend rape laws.

iii) Review security laws in conflict zones.

iv) Monitor illegal, patriarchal village councils.

v) Review medical examination of rape victims.

vi) Police reforms.

vii) Electoral reforms.

viii) Gender sensitisation through education.

ix) Bill of rights.

x) End to Human Trafficking.