Uttar Pradesh government will today launch 6-month long women empowerment programme ‘Mission Shakti’ to raise awareness and tackle crime against women in the state. Governor Anandiben Patel will launch the campaign in Lucknow while chief minister Yogi Adityanath will kick-start it in Balrampur. Ministers and other people’s representatives will launch the campaign in other districts.
Six month campaign has two phases, Mission Shakti’ and ‘Operation Shakti. Mission Shakti will feature awareness campaigns related to women’s safety. In a tweet, the CM’s Office said that initiatives like gender-based sensitisation, training, corporate activity, voice messages, interviews, programmes in Durga Puja and other cultural pandals should be organised to create greater awareness under ‘Mission Shakti’.
A weeklong special campaign will be launched every month during the campaign to create awareness among masses and sensitise people on the subject. These programmes will be organised in all the 521 blocks, 59,000 gram panchayats, 630 urban local bodies and 1,535 police stations in the 75 districts of the state. Women nodal officers appointed by government in all the districts for the execution and monitoring of the campaign will try to create awareness about the help lines – 1090, 181, 1076, 108 and 102.
Operation Shakti will be the enforcement drive during which the police will prepare a register of persons who have come out of jail after serving time for crimes against women and monitor them.
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