Punjab Police Saanjh Rahat Kendras aided over 1,000 distressed women, says DGP

The Story in Brief

DGP Gaurav Yadav said Punjab Police’s Saanjh Rahat Kendras have become an important community policing initiative offering counselling, legal aid, crisis intervention and rehabilitation to women in distress. Launched initially with two trained counsellors at the Mohali Saanjh Rahat Kendra, the initiative has expanded to four districts with centres operating at civil hospitals in SAS Nagar, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib and Jalandhar. Over the past two years the centres have registered 1,069 cases and screened 1,656 cases, providing timely intervention in instances of domestic violence and other abuse and helping women access shelter, legal assistance and police support. The article describes cases in which teams arranged secure transport, escorted women to parental homes and initiated legal proceedings, and one case where a pregnant woman was treated at PGI for nearly two months, suffered a miscarriage, received counselling, was helped to find employment and efforts were made to reconnect her with family. The Kendras sit alongside wider SAANJH programmes and Women Help Desks involved in school and community outreach.

The Indian Opinion

The article relies mainly on figures and examples provided by Punjab Police and statements from senior officers; it does not include independent evaluation or long-term outcome data. The numbers on registered and screened cases, school visits and outreach events indicate scale, but the success stories are anecdotal and do not by themselves demonstrate systemic change or sustained safety for all beneficiaries. An ordinary reader would reasonably want more information on staffing, funding, monitoring and independent reviews to assess whether the Kendras can be scaled and sustained across the state. The automated nature of the feed that produced the article also suggests caution about missing context or follow-up reporting.

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