Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday stressed on making continuous efforts to check harassment of women and children and controlling crimes against them and also making the system of empowerment of women more effective.

Giving this information here on Thursday evening, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi said that the government had decided to constitute a district unit of women and child protection organisations in every district of the state.

For this, a unit has been formed by merging various units related to women working in the commissionerate/district. This unit will work as a representative unit of the Women and Child Protection Organisation in its district.

Awasthi said that as a result of this, in different districts of the state, various branches of the police, ie Women's Aid Cell, Women's Crime Branch and Child Welfare (CAW) which were running in different names in the past would now come under one umbrella.

Awasthi said that under the District Women and Child Protection Organisation, mahila police station and anti-human trafficking unit (AHTU) of the district concerned would work under the close supervision of the newly-formed unit.

Its supervision will be done by the district police in-charge. The monitoring of this unit will also be done by the Women and Child Protection Organisation at the state headquarters.

The District Women and Child Protection Organisation will monitor the proceedings of women and child crimes in the district and will also help in preparing their database. Through this, effective disposal of complaints received from National Commission for Women, State Commission for Women, Integrated Grievance Redressal System (IGRS), Women Help Desk, Public Grievances, Women and Child Protection Organisation (1090), CM Helpline, UP 112 etc. will be done.

Awasthi said that the new district unit would work for wide publicity of women's rights and coordinate with various voluntary and child organisations to work for women, to provide proper assistance to the harassed women and to develop social consciousness for the prevention of women's oppression.

He said that coordination would be established by the police department for the successful and effective implementation of various schemes being run for the uplift of women by the District Women and Child Protection Organisation unit and other departments like Women and Child Development, Education and Health etc.

For providing medical, judicial, psychological counseling services at the district level, coordination and cooperation would be ensured by this unit on behalf of the police department.

Awasthi said that according to the work in the district office of the Women and Child Protection Organisation, it had been decided to make four sections which would monitor cases related to women (Women Help Desk), Mahila Sahayata Cell (counseling centre), Mahila Samman Kosh (financial assistance), Women Commission and Women and Child Protection Organisation respectively.

It has been decided to give the charge of all these units to the deputy superintendent of police, additional superintendent of police, crime level officer available in the commissionerate/district. At the commissionerate/district level, the district unit of mahila thana/AHTU police station and the proposed Women and Child Protection Organisation would function under the supervision of DCP/additional superintendent of police/zonal officer.

Under the Mahila Samman Kosh, the financial assistance received under various government schemes will be monitored and action will be taken by examining the applications received from the National Commission for Women, State Commission for Women, other commissions, Women and Child Protection Organisation, Lucknow under Women's Commission Cell.