‘Nirbhaya Fund’ has been created to ensure dignity and safety of girl children and women. The Fund has been created as a corpus in public account in Department of Economic Affairs (DEA). ₹ 2000/- crore has been credited in the Fund. As and when the schemes from Ministries/Departments are approved to be funded from ‘Nirbhaya Fund’ suitable allocations are done in their respective Demands and the corpus in DEA is reduced by that amount.

Allocation from Nirbhaya Fund has been made for the following schemes:

i) ‘Scheme on Women Safety on Public Road Transport’ administered by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways – ₹ 50,00 crore;

ii) ‘Schemes on Backend Integration of Distress Signal from Victims with Mobile Vans and Control Rooms’ administered by Ministry of Home Affairs – ₹ 150.00 crore.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Finance, Shri Arun Jaitley in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Nirbhaya Fund creation establishes a central public corpus to finance approved women's safety schemes and allocations. Creation of Nirbhaya Fund as a public corpus in the Department of Economic Affairs provides a central funding mechanism for measures to ensure dignity and safety of girls and women. The corpus is credited with an initial amount and is drawn down when Ministries and Departments receive approved allocations, which are reflected in their Demands. Two allocations were announced for schemes on women's safety in public road transport and backend integration of distress signals.