DCW seeks action against delay in rehab policy for trafficking

Delhi Commission for Women has written to the Chief Secretary seeking action against officers of the Women and Child Development department for failing to draft a rehabilitation policy for victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in GB Road area.
The women's body has requested Chief Secretary MM Kutti to ensure that the policy is created in a month and the second meet of the State Level Coordination Committee on trafficking and rehabilitation reconvened.
"Over the past one-and-a-half years, since its reconstitution, DCW has conducted several inspections of brothels in GB Road area. In 2015, I had met the erstwhile Chief Secretary, KK Sharma, who had then directed the WCD department to frame a rehabilitation policy for the victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation," DCW Chief Swati Maliwal said in the letter.

"The department has informed us that it is yet to draft a rehabilitation policy for trafficking victims as it is yet to complete a survey of 'women involved in prostitution in Delhi' after which it will draft a rehabilitation policy with due deliberations on it by all stakeholders," she added.
Keeping in view the urgency of the matter, "you should intervene in the same and fix accountability on the officers who delayed the process of creation of draft rehabilitation scheme for victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation", she said.