Mangalore: Karnataka State Women’s Commission, Manjula, has requested police officers in DK and elsewhere to treat unfortunate women kindly who had drunkards, lusty immoral persons or dowry devils and harassing individuals at home and around them, and when their complaints reach nearest police stations in the state to accept such petitions with equanimity of a trained mind. She was speaking at the ZP hall in city on Saturday in a meeting called to discuss the question of how women are treated and protected in DK Dt, be fore officials and NGO representatives handling social service, at the district level.
There is no resort for unfortunate women separated from homes, but the one centre which could have taken them in, is closed. This fact was brought to her notice by women police and rehabilitation centre workers present at this meeting. Realising the hardships of fallen women in coastal areas, Ms.Manjula promised to seek govt. assistance to open new rehabilitation centres, on the times of a Centre on Mysore –Ooty road, known as ‘Shakti Kendra’ for destitute women in the state, in Mangalore and other cities, also.
Ms.Manjula asked the Arakshaks (protectors in Police forces) to be kind and friendly to the women who come to them with complaints and seek a new life free of troubles.
She asked men traveling in buses to yield seats to women who cannot stand or who are in physical inability, so that such women could set in reserved and other vacant seats in buses.
Additional DC Prabhakar Sharma, ZP CEO Shivashanker, Dy SP B.J.Bhandary and Women and Child Welfare Director Shakuntala were present.