This IAS Officer Has One Mission, Fight Crime Head-On And Ensure Justice For The Wronged

Divya Devarajan is an IAS officer who passed out in 2010. Now she is the Commissioner of State Women and Child Department and aims to prevent crime first, as per a report in The New Indian Express.

Now she wants to make sure there is an increase in the frequency of crimes being reported and they are followed by swift steps to make sure that the victim gets justice.

The 37-year-old has many ideas on better SOPs for attending to victims and several other welfare schemes, especially for the ethnic tribal community.

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¡°Women activists already on the ground are more sensitive to local issues. This is why, in many districts, we are working with women activists like Kondaveeti Satyavathi and Jhansi,¡± she said.

¡°We have collaborated with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to train officials for specific SOPs,¡± she added.

We want to train people for the ¡®Bell Bajao Movement¡¯. We have more than 64,000 Anganwadi workers who are empowering other women to curb crime. In case a woman is being subjected to domestic violence, another woman starts ringing the doorbell of the house. That might discourage the perpetrator to stop the violence."

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She is on a mission to fight crime head-on and is setting a new benchmark in her field of work.