The National Commission for Women (NCW) has a Complaints and Investigation Cell to deal with the complaints received from all over the country wherein there is any deprivation of women’s rights or any issue involving injustice to women. The Complaints & Investigation Cell processes complaints with the objective of providing adequate and expeditious relief ensuring suitable redressal of grievances of these women. A  Non-Resident Indian (NRI) cell has been functioning in NCW since September, 2009 to deal with complains received from India and abroad resulting from cross country marriages. NRI Cell largely adopts a convergence approach among different Ministries and efforts are made to coordinate jointly on taking up matters for the victims with respective authorities and take action depending upon the nature of the complaint received such as summons to complainant, take up matter with concerned police station, Indian Embassies, Passport authorities etc. 

The number of complaints received in the NRI cell of NCW from India & abroad during the last 3 years and the current year are as under:-

This was stated by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women and Child Development, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha today.

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