The crime map prepared by the district Kudumbasree unit as part of the State Kudumbasree Mission’s efforts to bring out a comprehensive report on the nature and extent of sexual abuse and other exploitative acts against children, will be released here on Children’s Day on Friday.
All other district units are already working on their respective crime maps.
However, Kozhikode would be the first to release it, said K.K. Muhammed Faisal, district coordinator of the mission, during a press meet here on Wednesday.
He said the crime map would be an important document for preparing a State-level report suggesting valuable preventive measures.
As was done earlier in preparing a State-level crime map on the sexual assaults and atrocities against women, five panchayats were selected in each district to conduct the study after naming them as ‘Nirbhaya panchayats.’
Kakkodi, Kavilumpara, Puthuppadi, Chorode and Maruthonkara were the five panchayats selected for the crime mapping in Kozhikdoe district.
Information was collected from as many as 200 children, ranging from 3 to 17 years, from all the five panchayats through a questionnaire survey and other ‘focussed group’ interaction programmes for the document.
M.K. Saseendran, MLA, will release the district crime map at the Kakkodi Gramapanchayat Community Hall at 11 a.m. on Friday.
