Women and Child Development Ministry to come up with sensitising campaign to fight rising crimes against Northeastern youngsters
Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath
Women and Child Development Ministry to come up with sensitising campaign to fight rising crimes against Northeastern youngsters
The government is mulling 'mind games' to counter the discrimination and rising crimes against people from Northeast, especially women.
The debate has yet again taken the centrestage after the murder of a Naga teenager by an IIT Delhi PhD scholar last week.u00a0 Women and Child Development Ministry has decided to "sensitise people" towards the issue and aims to take a comprehensive view of the situation by pooling in the efforts with Ministry for Development of the Northeastern Region (DONER). Expressing her shock at the murder of 19-year-old Ramchanphy Hongray at her Munirka home in south Delhi, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said her ministry is planning to come up with "something concrete to help the northeastern youngsters keeping in mind the rising number of crimes against them."
"We plan to launch a sensitising campaign to change the mindset of the people," she added. A senior official in the ministry, however, ruled out any special separate helpline or assistance desk for the purpose, at least for now.u00a0
"We may talk to the students of the region in the city also before embarking upon a programme," the official said.
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