One Stop Centre(OSC) scheme, popularly known as Sakhi Centres, is being implemented across the country since 1st April 2015. As on date, 680 OSCs have been set up across 35 States/UTs.

As per the OSC Scheme, OSCs are required to facilitate women affected by violence with a range of integrated services under one roof including police facilitation, medical aid, legal aid and legal counselling, psycho-social counseling and temporary shelter, and are to be located within 2 kms radius of the hospitals or medical facilities. The State/UT wise details of sanctioned and operational OSCs are given below:

Manpower in States including Tamil Nadu for One Stop Centers(OSCs) are inducted as per the scheme guidelines and this is an ongoing process.

The Government of India has approved setting up of 1023 Fast Track Special Courts (FTCSs) under Nirbhaya Fund across the country for expeditious trial and disposal of pending cases rape under POCSO Act, 2012 in a time-bound manner.

STATE/UT-WISE DETAILS OF SANCTIONED AND OPERATIONAL ONE STOP CENTRES (OSCs)

This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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