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Government of India
Ministry of Women and Child Development
07-February-2020 16:55 IST
Sakhi Centres

One Stop Centre(OSC) scheme, popularly known as Sakhi Centres, is being implemented across the country since 1st April 2015. As on date, 680 OSCs have been set up across 35 States/UTs.

As per the OSC Scheme, OSCs are required to facilitate women affected by violence with a range of integrated services under one roof including police facilitation, medical aid, legal aid and legal counselling, psycho-social counseling and temporary shelter, and are to be located within 2 kms radius of the hospitals or medical facilities. The State/UT wise details of sanctioned and operational OSCs are given below:

Manpower in States including Tamil Nadu for One Stop Centers(OSCs) are inducted as per the scheme guidelines and this is an ongoing process.

The Government of India has approved setting up of 1023 Fast Track Special Courts (FTCSs) under Nirbhaya Fund across the country for expeditious trial and disposal of pending cases rape under POCSO Act, 2012 in a time-bound manner.

 

STATE/UT-WISE DETAILS OF SANCTIONED AND OPERATIONAL ONE STOP CENTRES (OSCs)

Sl. No.

State/ UTs

Total Number of Districts

Number of 

Sanctioned OSCs

Number of Operational OSCs

1

Andaman & Nicobar Islands (UT)

3

3

3

2

Andhra Pradesh

13

14

13

3

Arunachal Pradesh

25

25

24

4

Assam

33

33

31

5

Bihar

38

38

38

6

Chandigarh  (UT)

1

1

1

7

Chhattisgarh 

27

27

27

8

Dadra & Nagar Haveli (UT)

1

1

1

9

Daman & Diu (UT)

2

2

2

10

Goa

2

2

2

11

Gujarat

33

33

33

12

Haryana

22

22

22

13

Himachal Pradesh

12

12

12

14

Jammu & Kashmir 

20

20

7

15

Jharkhand

24

24

24

16

Karnataka

30

30

30

17

Kerala

14

14

14

18

Lakshadweep (UT)

1

2

0

19

Ladakh (UT)

2

1

1

20

Madhya Pradesh

51

51

51

21

Maharashtra

36

37

37

22

Manipur

16

16

16

23

Meghalaya

11

11

11

24

Mizoram

8

8

8

25

Nagaland

11

11

11

26

NCT of Delhi (UT)

11

11

11

27

Odisha

30

30

30

28

Puducherry (UT)

4

4

4

29

Punjab

22

22

22

30

Rajasthan

33

33

33

31

Sikkim

4

4

1

32

Tamil Nadu

32

34

32

33

Telangana

33

33

32

34

Tripura

8

8

8

35

Uttar Pradesh

75

75

75

36

Uttarakhand

13

13

13

37

West Bengal

23

23

0

 

Total

724

728

680

 

This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

 

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MM/ SB