ADMINISTRATION AND FUNCTIONING OF SAKHI-ONE STOP CENTERS (OSC) IN KARNATAKA, ANDRA PRADESH AND TELANGANA STATES OF SOUTH INDIA’: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
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Violence is common phenomena and part and parcel in all civilized societies. Violence against women is one of the most methodical and ubiquitous human rights violations in the globe since the time immemorial. Basically violence is type of gender targeted and rather than individuals due to the faulty structure in the society. Violence against women has no border or like age, class social, educational, economical, caste, class, geographic etc. It affects all types of societies today without any doubt. Various schemes have been implemented by Govt. to avoid hostility and violence against women. Sakhi- One-Stop Centre (OSC) is one of the key schemes among them implemented by the Govt. through Nirbhaya fund (GoI). OSC is crated to support all women and girls exaggerated by various types of violence’s, in private and public spaces and even at home too. These center shave found vital interventions and become extremely useful in providing emergency and comprehensive services including legal, psychological and medical aid under a common roof for the women victims round the clock. Till date around 360s such OSC centers have been created by the Ministry of Women and Child welfare, GOI across the country. The aim of the current study is to find out administration and functioning of Sakhi One Stop Centers (OSC) in Karnataka, Andra Pradesh and Telangana States of South India using empirical technique and concludes that OSC centers need more urgent reforms and need changes in the style of its functioning.
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