Conference of Chief Secretaries and DGsP

MNS:- A conference of Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of various states will be held in New Delhi tomorrow to discuss issues regarding crime against women and atrocities on Scheduled Castes (SCs) / Scheduled Tribes (STs). The conference will be addressed by Union Home Minister Shri Sushilkumar Shinde, Union Minister for Social Justice […]

MNS:- A conference of Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of various states will be held in New Delhi tomorrow to discuss issues regarding crime against women and atrocities on Scheduled Castes (SCs) / Scheduled Tribes (STs). The conference will be addressed by Union Home Minister Shri Sushilkumar Shinde, Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment Kumari Selja, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smt.Krishna Tirath and senior officials from the Union Home Ministry.
The conference will discuss the issues relating to safety and security of women and SCs/STs, issues and challenges in combating crime against women, strategies to eliminate violence against women, analysis of recent statistics of various crimes against women, infanticide and female foeticide, so called honour killings, acid attack on women and victim compensation scheme. The conference will also discuss atrocities against the weaker sections, institutional mechanisms and capacity building and Standard operating procedures (SOPs), amendments in the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2012.

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