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Her parents agreed to accept her after being counselled,” said the officer.“We can provide temporary shelter and food for the first five days. We are trying to counsel them as well,” Patil said.According to a senior officer from the department, three women are currently staying in the centre since a few days, six have returned to their homes while an elderly citizen has been sent to an old age home.“One of the women sent home is an unwed mother who has been forced out of the house. Thereafter, the women either have to be sent to Shaskiya Vatsalya Mahila Vastigruha or back to their parents, in which case the government does a proper follow-up,” said the officer.In 26 other cases, the crisis centre is helping out women to fight their cases in courts under the provisions of Domestic Violence Act.The crisis centre currently operates from its office and a new 11,000-sq ft facility will come up on the social justice department premises, near Nasardi bridge, in Nashik city.The WCD has invited applications from NGOs with experience in working for women in distress. Nashik: ‘One Stop Crisis Centre’, a scheme launched by the Union ministry of women and child development a year ago, has so far rendered assistance to 44 women in distress in Nashik district and saved the families of eight from breaking up.The crisis centre provides immediate assistance to women in distress by giving them temporary shelter, food, legal aid and security, besides counselling for them and their family members under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.“We have successfully resolved the cases of eight women through counselling sessions for them and their family members and prevented their marriages from breaking up,” Surekha Pati, district women and child development (WCD) officer, said on Wednesday.The women who are benefiting from the scheme belong to different age groups – from 22 years to 67 years — and most of them are those who have been thrown out of their homes by husbands, in-laws or children.“Many young women who are thrown out of their marital home are unable to return to their parents’ house as they refuse to accept them.
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