GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEINDIAMEASURESPILOT PROJECTS TO CREATE ZERO TOLERANCE VIOLENCE ZONES
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Pilot Projects to Create Zero Tolerance Violence Zones
Type of Measure
Policies > National action plan specific to violence against women
Form of Violence
Sexual harassment; Stalking; Violence against women and girls
Year
1998
Brief Description

To provide neighborhood support, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (then Department of Women and Child Development ), in collaboration with UNIFEM, initiated pilot projects in 1998 in three States (Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan) involving Mohalla Committees (Street Committees) to create zero violence zones.

The State governments, the State Commissions for Women and the State Social Welfare Boards have their local plans/ strategies. In some of the Metro cities, the local bodies run women special buses to avoid molestation, eve teasing and harassment to women commuters.

Source of Information
Response of the Government of India to the questionnaire on violence against women 2010
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