Sakshi in association with Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) offers crisis intervention and legal aid at community level and help to tackle local level legal disputes and assist in reduction and reconciliation of violence against women. Potential community leaders are identified, trained and motivated to volunteer as Mahila Panchayat Members forming a 30 member team. They were trained on dispute addressing mechanisms, legal components relevant to crimes against women, given exposure about the existing legal position regarding property, maintenance, marriage, custody, etc. They are also given training in counseling, FIR writing and legal process while pursuing it further with police stations and lawyers. The programme is undertaken in four areas of South Delhi and South East Delhi, covering two police station: FatehPur Beri and Kotla Mubarakpur. Training has proved to enable Mahila Panchayat to address cases of women’s distress and creating awareness of their rights. This year Sakshi has covered 909 cases related to different crimes against women, like domestic violence, Dowry , Triple Talaq, Cases with Senior Citizens and more. Other tha addressing the registered cases, the team also performed do to do visits in the communities and reach to more than 10500 individulas to raise awareness on such issues. The Mahila Panchayat team also facilitated the community in registering and accessing different government entitlements and documents like – birth certificates, Aadhaar card, ration cards, Pan cards etc. As a part of their role they conducted Health camp, vaccination camp, yoga classes etc as well with the community people specially women and girls.
