{"id":27055,"date":"2020-06-08T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/smriti-irani-denies-domestic-violence-increase-during-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:50:20","slug":"smriti-irani-denies-domestic-violence-increase-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27055","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Irani denies domestic violence increase during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Scaremongering done especially with some development partners who are in the NGO sector, says the Minister for Women and Child Development<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/irani-denies-domestic-violence-increase-during-lockdown\/article31776591.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Union Minister Smriti Irani has denied claims that the coronavirus-induced lockdown led to an increase in cases of domestic violence against women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Replying to a question that the lockdown has increased domestic violence and women are not being able to even lodge complaints, Ms. Irani retorted: \u201cIt is false. Every state has a police line functioning. We have one stop crisis centres across every district of every State.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI without revealing the faces and names of women that we have rescued, have state by state, district by district rescue rehabilitation details of every individual victim,\u201d she said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister for Women and Child Development and Textiles said there was some \u201cscaremongering done especially with some development partners who are in the NGO sector that 80% of women who are now at homes in India or across the world will be getting beaten up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said every man is not beating up the woman in his house in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur police lines have been functional throughout the lockdown. Our crisis centres have been functional throughout the lockdown,\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Irani said rescue and rehabilitation facilities have been provided not only for women but also children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn fact, so far as the numbers go, I have 35 helpline numbers across all states apart from a central number that has been functioning fully throughout the lockdown period,\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was addressing a TiE talk event hosted through a virtual platform on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaremongering done especially with some development partners who are in the NGO sector, says the Minister for Women and Child Development PTI Union Minister Smriti Irani has denied claims that the coronavirus-induced lockdown led to an increase in cases of domestic violence against women. Replying to a question that the lockdown has increased domestic violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}