OSC in Gbl receives 300 circumstances, settles 135 circumstances since Jan 2021

Ganderbal : The One-Cease Centre (OSC) in Wayil Ganderbal district is offering a secure and supportive surroundings for girls, who’ve skilled gender violence together with bodily, sexual and emotional psychological or financial points. To this point, the centre has settled over 130 circumstances out of 300 since January 2021, the officers stated.

Advocate Malik Shagufta (Centre Administrator) whereas speaking to the information company, “On January 01, 2021, the Sakhi one-stop centre in Ganderbal was launched. The first goal of the Sakhi one-stop centre is to supply complete help to girls experiencing sexual assault, home violence, and different associated points, all below one roof.”

Advocate Malik Shagufta—a centre administrator on the one-stop facility Ganderbal stated that, of the 300 circumstances acquired up to now, round 135 have been settled.

Circumstances together with human trafficking, home violence, sexual harassment, cybercrime, and different points are all acquired by us, she stated.

“Together with providing them short-term housing, we additionally provide them counselling, medical consideration, rescue providers, police providers, and authorized help. We ensure to handle the issues inside 4 partitions. We assure the privateness of the person’s particulars,” Advocate stated.

“We deal with issues involving people over the age of 18, and we ship conditions involving these below the age of 18 to the kid welfare committee,” she stated, including that “each public transport automobile has labels on it with the numbers of the ladies’s cell, the one-stop centre and even the district administration. We encourage anybody experiencing harassment to offer us a name. We can be found to them around-the-clock.”

Pertinently, the One-Cease Centre (OSC) has been launched to help providers for survivors of gender-based violence. With a core goal to offer a secure haven and complete help, the OSC goals to empower survivors and facilitate their reintegration into society—(KNO)