NEW DELHI: A helpline for women set up with great fanfare by beleaguered Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit through advertisement in newspapers yesterday morning itself appeared to be ‘helpless’ as it was not working.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) reported that calls to the number were greeted by a long beep sound.
Dikshit had last week announced launch of the round-the-clock helpline for offering help to women in distress amid nationwide uproar over the Dec 16 brutal gangrape of the 23-year-old here. The girl had breathed her last on Saturday in a Singapore hospital.
Senior Delhi Government officials said the helpline could not be made functional due to some glitches in the MTNL network.
They said the helpline, which will operate from the Chief Minister’s office in National capital Delhi Secretariat, can be contacted from landlines as well as mobile phones. — Bernama