Madhya Pradesh to Track Women for Their Safety
Madhya Pradesh CM announced that a system will be put in place where a woman will register herself at the police station, and she will be tracked for her safety. Also a helpline number will be provid
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was inaugurating an awareness programme on crime against women called “Samman” on 11th January 2021. In his speech he said that, a system will be put in place where a woman moving out of home for work would have to register herself at the police station, and she will be tracked for her safety. The chief minister said a helpline number will be provided to these women, which will enable them to call for help when in distress. The government would also make it compulsory to install panic buttons in public transportation vehicles.
The CM said that incidents of rape have reduced by 19% in the state, kidnapping by 23%, female foeticide by 20% and sexual harassment by 14%. In MP 7,100 missing girls have been traced and united with their families and efforts were underway to find the remaining missing children,
Chouhan also supported raising the minimum age for women to marry. “I feel that the marriage age of daughters should be increased from 18 to 21 years,” he said. “I want to make this a matter of debate, and the country and the state should reflect on this. Prime Minister Narendra Modi too had said during his Independence Day speech last year that the government will set up a committee to revise the legal marriageable age for women.
