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PEC, an NGO advocating for women’s rights since 2012, filed a PIL prompting the Gujarat government to frame better rules for women’s shelters to ensure safety, proper care and rehabilitation.
Peace and Equality Cell (PEC), an NGO advocating for women’s rights since 2012, filed a PIL prompting the Gujarat government to frame better rules for women’s shelters to ensure safety, proper care and rehabilitation.
AHMEDABAD: The state government has formulated rules to improve living conditions in women’s shelter homes across the state and for their better management, it informed the Gujarat high court about the provisions on Friday.
The rules have been formulated on HC directions issued over a PIL filed by an NGO ‘Peace and Equality Cell’ in 2014 seeking to improve living conditions in shelter homes, which they said had turned into jails instead of shelter where women can feel safe.
The government has titled the provisions as, ‘Rules for management of state homes and reception centres for protection, empowerment and rehabilitation of survivors of gender-based violence and abuse’.
A 13-member state level steering committee will be responsible for the “overall management, policy development and advocacy for required resources and staff of shelters”. It will review the rules every five years. Moreover, a 15-member management committee headed by the district collector will look after such homes at district level.