"We are in the process of revamping the 181 women's distress helpline as it has been brought to our notice that not all calls are being catered to due to limitation in resources," said a senior Delhi government official.
According to Khadijah Faruqui, consultant of the 181 helpline, the manpower and infrastructure is insufficient to handle the large number of calls that it receives.
The helpline has three functioning phone lines managed by 16 women staffers.
The High court, a few days back, had pointed out that "Everyone knows about 100. How many know of 181? You have to make it known to the people." It had stressed that a women's helpline was of no use if it was not publicized.
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Following this, Delhi government held meetings over the issue of publicising the number. According to Faruqui, along with more awareness even infrastructure has to be spruced so that each and every call is attended.
Out of 8,51,455 calls, in 666684 calls cases have been registered.
5310 calls belonged to kidnapping cases, 436 cases of related to sexual abuse at workplace, 12435 calls related to child sexual abuse, 615 calls of acid attack and 79782 calls to report domestic violence.
The helpline was launched with much fandare by the then-chief minister Sheila Dikshit after a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was brutally gangraped and murdered in a moving bus in December 16, 2012.