Ahmedabad: Neeta, a 31-year-old Navrangpura resident, suspects her husband having an affair with a colleague in the office.
But he always avoided that question.
But the pandemic proved to be a turning point when working from home forced a partner to stay together all day.
Temari, who often finally confirmed his feelings, and he looked for the helpline intervention of women to overcome this problem.
In 2021 was the worst for Gujarat in terms of pandemic with the number of cases and very high Covid deaths – but also a year of testing for women.
Annual Data Abhayam 181 Helpline Women show a 22% surge in van shipments and a 21% increase in counseling calls than up to 2020.
“The increase is recorded in the entire household violence, which accounts for 48% of the total volume of calls, records a 32% increase compared to With 2019, which is a non-pandemic year.
Likewise, calls related to extramarital affairs increased by 59%, legal counseling increased by 73% and complaint abuse of 66%, “said a senior Helpline official Abhayam.
Falguni Patel, the Helpline Coordinator for Ahmedabad, said that compared to previous years, 2020 and 2021 were different because the pandemic layer added.
“The majority of cases, women are not fine with their environment, but the pandemic causes despair and they decide that they will not want to continue to suffer in silence,” he said, adding that in a large number of cases, women chose to live in facilities The government instead of returning to their parents’ homes.
Mini Josef, ACP (Women) of the City Police of Ahmedabad, said that the problem they witnessed in the pandemic year was cut across the socio-economic strata.
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