Rs 1000 crore Nirbhaya safety fund lies locked

December 16, 2013 13:56

Money is yet to start flowing from the Rs 1,000-crore Nirbhaya Fund, one of the Centre's first initiatives for women's safety announced in the bus gang-rape victim's memory, a year after the incident.

Officials of at least three ministries said they had sent "comprehensive' proposals but the plans had still not been cleared by the P. Chidambaram-headed finance ministry almost 10 months after he announced the corpus while presenting the budget in February. Read more

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