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Mumbai hardlook: Failing them again

A decade after the December 16, 2012 Delhi gang rape incident that shook the nation, the One-Stop-Centres (OSC) or ‘Sakhi’ centres, established with the Nirbhaya Fund set up by the Union ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) to support women affected by violence, have failed to take off. An investigation revealed several challenges, including lack of awareness, infrastructure, lack of coordination between departments, police apathy and hesitancy among women. At the nation’s financial capital Mumbai, per 110 registered rape cases, on an average annually, only one is referred to OSC.

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