Empowered Committee of the Ministry of Women and Child Development has approved the Ministry of External Affairs’s proposal to set up nine One-Stop Centres.
The aim of these centres is to provide comprehensive assistance to women in vulnerable situations.
Out of the nine proposed One-Stop Centres, seven will have shelter homes and will be set up in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia (with centres in both Jeddah and Riyadh).
The remaining two centres will be located in Toronto and Singapore. They will operate without shelter home facilities.
The Indian Community Welfare Fund (ICWF) will play an essential role in providing welfare measures to distressed Indian nationals, especially women.
Its guidelines were comprehensively revised in September 2017.
It now covers emergency assistance such as boarding and lodging, air travel for those stranded.
