‘Nirbhay Chetna’ Rolled Out : To Sensitize Over 17.5 lakh Male Elected Representatives on Women Safety & Gender Equality Issues at the Grassroots

• Nirbhay Chetna is a national gender-sensitisation initiative by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) targeting male elected representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to mainstream women's safety and gender equality at the grassroots.
• Branded as the largest drive of its kind in the world; rolled out as a flagship component of the Nirbhay Raho programme under the Nirbhaya Fund.
• UPSC relevance: intersects GS-I (women, society), GS-II (governance, PRIs, schemes) and GS-III (Nirbhaya Fund/security).