WOMEN COMMISSIONS OF BIHAR AND UP SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE SERIOUS LAPSES IN WOMEN SHELTER HOMES. WHY HAD THEY NOT VISITED THEM N UNEARTHED THE SCANDALS?

WOMEN COMMISSIONS OF BIHAR AND UP SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE SERIOUS LAPSES IN WOMEN SHELTER HOMES. WHY HAD THEY NOT VISITED THEM N UNEARTHED THE SCANDALS?

The recent shocking revelations of horrible nature of crimes pertaining to the sexual and criminal assault, exploitation and rapes of women and children in shelter homes of Muzaffarpur, Bihar and Deoria in Uttar Pradesh leading them to prostitution to earn handsome money, has literally shaken the conscience of the people and compelled one and all to hang their heads in shame.

What is most anguishing and terrifying about these shameful incidents is the fact that the politicians at the helm and the corrupt officials of the concerned social departments allegedly collaborate with the the owners and management of these NGO’s and let this sin happen for years by turning a blind eye towards these illegal and shameful activities.

In majority of these cases it has been revealed that the proprietors of these shelter homes, husband and wives in usual cases, who have risen from a person with penury to a wealthy n respectable person in a short span of time through these illegal activities by earning handsomely through the shameful business of throwing hapless women and girls into prostitution, have links with powerful people and leaders at the helm and agencies responsible to regulate or take coercive action against them thus deliberately turn blind eye towards them despite knowing of these horrible irregularities.

The Women Commissions of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are primarly responsible for the lack of carrying out periodic inspections and checks on the arbitrary n illegal activities of the shelter homes, women jails and children homes of the states.

It may be recalled that the shelter homes aided by the social welfare departments and the ministry of the state, the women jails and the children homes are under the juricdiction of the state women commissions and its obligatory on them to have periodic checks and apply regulations on their wrong practices but the chiefs’ and the members including the member secretary of these commissions never ever take the pain to come out of their air conditioned offices to visit these women shelter homes, women jails and children homes in order to improve the living conditions of the inmates and have a check on other activities in these homes.

Had the social welfare department of these states, the women commission chiefs and members and its member secretaries visited these women shelter homes periodically and deeply investigated the complaints or talked to the inmates about their grievances the aweful situation could have been ressurected by now and the women and girls put into forced prostitution or rapes committed on them could have been avoided for sure.

But unfortunately these women commissions never obeyed their duties sincerely and hence such grave irregularities continued for years playing with the dignity and modesty of shelter home girls and women thus raising the status of the owners of these homes from penury to excessive wealth.

What’s happening now, the politicians and political parties of various hue and cry are exploiting the situation to their political advantage by shouting on these issues but never cared for them when they were themselves at the helm of the administration and power.

Shockingly about 44 girls were raped in the Muzaffarpur Shelter home owned by an influential fraudster and journalist with high political connections and 24 girls rescued from the Deoria Shelter home that allegedly supplied girls for prostitution. Shame on them.

What’s your take friends?