Parliamentary panel takes exception to Nirbhaya Fund being used for construction of buildingsThe Nirbhaya Fund was started in 2013 by the Congress led UPA government to implement initiatives aimed at enhancing safety and security of...
10 Feb, 2019, 03.43 PM IST
Centre approves Rs 194.44 crore Safe City Project for LucknowThe city will soon have integrated smart control room, exclusive women outposts, pink toilets, night patrols of women police and women help...
01 Nov, 2018, 04.51 PM IST
Centre approves Rs 2,900 crore to make cities safer for womenThe Nirbhaya Fund was set up in the aftermath of the gruesome gangrape and murder of a paramedical student in Delhi in 2012, and aims at im...
01 Mar, 2018, 10.43 PM IST
GPS to be made must in public transport vehiclesIn a move to make all public transport vehicles safer for passengers and particularly women, soon these will need to install GPS or any oth...
03 May, 2016, 08.03 AM IST
Government forms panel to approve schemes under Nirbhaya FundThe government in April this year has made the WCD Ministry the nodal agency for the Nirbhaya Fund in place of Home Ministry.
04 Nov, 2015, 11.10 PM IST
Boost for Nirbhaya scheme as Centre, States to ink pact on Emergency Response SystemEnvisaged on the lines of the 911 helpline in the US, the national emergency 112 aims to integrate services such as police, fire and ambula...
21 Aug, 2015, 05.30 AM IST
Government keen to operationalise emergency helpline for women by 2017The government has kick-started the process to set up a single emergency response number across the country for women safety.
14 May, 2015, 04.10 AM IST
Nirbhaya Fund of Rs 1,273 crore lying unusedTwo proposals have been approved so far under the fund by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.
24 Apr, 2015, 11.23 PM IST
Women and Child Development Ministry replaces MHA as nodal agency for Nirbhaya FundThe Nirbhaya fund has a total of Rs 3,000 cr as Rs 1,000 cr each was allocated to it in 2014-15 and 2015-16 on top of Rs 1,000 cr initial c...
05 Apr, 2015, 10.44 AM IST
DTC seeks Rs 103 crore from 'Nirbhaya Fund' for CCTVs in busesThe corporation had recently installed CCTV cameras in 200 buses, as part of a pilot project to enhance security especially for women passe...
16 Dec, 2014, 06.30 PM IST
No concrete plan to use Nirbhya fund: CPI-M MP T N SeemaCondemning the recent rape of a woman executive in Delhi, CPI-M Rajya Sabha member T N Seema today alleged the Centre has no definite plan ...
10 Dec, 2014, 05.54 PM IST
660 Nirbhaya Centres for women violence victimsThe centres will be set up in all the 640 districts and 20 additional locations in the country and the project will cost 477 crores approxi...
03 Jul, 2014, 07.01 PM IST
Speed up project for women's safety: Rajnath SinghThe measures in the project involves a distress SOS being sent to the police by pressing a button on the mobile phone, proposed to the gove...
18 Jun, 2014, 02.47 AM IST
Rajnath Singh raises concern over delay in Nirbhaya projectThe Government today raised concerns over delay in starting of Nirbhaya project, aimed at providing speedy assistance to women in distress.
17 Jun, 2014, 06.55 PM IST
Interim Budget 2014: Nirbhaya Fund gets additional Rs 1,000 crore in budgetThe government set a deadline of February 20, 2014, for public transport vehicles running in major cities with a population of over 10 lakh...
18 Feb, 2014, 04.14 AM IST
Process on to operationalise Nirbhaya project for women's safetyProcess is on to operationalise the Rs 1,405 crore project for women's safety, following the Nirbhaya rape case.
06 Feb, 2014, 05.04 PM IST
Women safety: Government approves CCTVs, GPS in public transportStepping up measures for women's safety across nation, govt approved a Rs 1,405-cr project to track & monitor public transport & provide al...
02 Jan, 2014, 10.40 PM IST