Women’s Protection Office launches awareness campaign
The Hindu
The District Women’s Protection Office is organising a two-week-long awareness campaign as a a step towards checking attacks against women, domestic violence and dowry related incidents in the distric
The District Women’s Protection Office is organising a two-week-long awareness campaign as a a step towards checking attacks against women, domestic violence and dowry related incidents in the district.
The campaign aims at reaching out to different sections of society through people’s representatives, government officials, trade union activists, service organisations, doctors, health workers, voluntary organisations and welfare agencies.
As part of the campaign, the Department of Women and Child Development organised an awareness workshop for trade union activists and the public on Monday. Deputy Collector (Revenue Recovery) Shamin Sebastian, who inaugurated the workshop, stressed the need for public awareness to put an end to attacks against women which is on the rise these days.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.