Govt plans new building for NIRBHAYA homes

Kondapur, Hyderabad March 13: If things go as per the script, the child victims of abuse and human trafficking rehabilitated at the Nirbhaya shelter homes in Kondapur Hyderabad will have better care and facilities soon.

The state govt has planning to bul=ild a new Nirbhaya Shelter in Hyderabad as the old Kondapur shelter is far away from the main city of Hyderabad.Govt are keen to seek the land for the new Nirbhaya shelter.

The state government has issued orders to ensure adequate staff and facilities with enhanced pay to the staff at Nirbhaya homes in Hyderabad and plans are afoot to set up one more shelter home for the survivors of human trafficking at Hyderabad.

Currently, many Nirbhaya homes in the state are short-staffed and funding for such homes in the state is yet to be on par with the national level.

According to officials, Nearly 2900 Nirbhaya cases have been raised in recent times.These Nirbhaya shelter victims get the counseling from the senior officials.

"Among the inmates at Nirbhaya homes, many children require counseling and health care to cruise through their phase of mental trauma. Of them, three girls who were pregnant had delivered in the last 10 days and one girl is in her last stages of pregnancy. Such girls require better health care, supplementary nutrition and proper facilities including garments which incur immediate expenditure. So the funds kept for the salary of the staff will have to be diverted for such medical exigencies and urgent life-saving measures," said one of the officials.