North accounts for 60-70 pc cases received by NCW: Lalitha

National Commission for Women Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam today said about 60-70 per cent of cases that the commission gets were from north Indian states, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list.
"UP (Uttar Pradesh) is the state from where we get lot of complaints of violence against woman...," she told reporters here in response to a question.
She said "...After UP it is Gurgaon-Haryana, and from Delhi itself we get huge number of cases, also Rajasthan and Bihar."
"About 60-70 per cent of cases are from these states which I have told you; this is a very conservative estimate," she said adding that commission receives comparatively less complaints from the southern states.

Stating that the commission gets very few complaints from North Eastern states, Kumaramangalam said there may be an issue of accessibility also.
According to her, out of 200 odd complaints that the commission gets every day, 60-70 per cent of them are domestic violence related cases.

Responding to a question on performance of the states in response to the commission with the action taken reports, she said "In certain states we always get replys back, but the worst state is Uttar Pradesh. With 82 districts, we hardly get any replys."
Stating that NCW had come out with a new way to address this, she said "....We have now initiated a new try sort of thing where we will work with the state authorities and come down to the state-more than one member depending on the size of the state and where ever possible include state commission also and try and do what is called Lok-adalats..."

Advocating for more powers to the NCW, Kumaramangalam said according to information that she has it was in the process of being finalised.
She said "What was being suggested is that the national commission for women will have the powers to search and seize, and ask for documents, and also to recommend arrest which will be mandatory....The others are all smaller administrative details."
Asked by when she feel it would come into force, Kumaramangalam said "it is very difficult to put a time line, but I hope it will be done with in my term.