Srinagar, March 26 -- Dr. Syeda Hameed and Shabnam Hashmi, along with over 600 activists, artists, and professionals, have urged J&K CM Omar Abdullah to prevent the closure of Special Cells for Women, set to shut down on March 31, 2025, due to funding cuts.

Dear Shri Omar Abdullah,

As you are well aware after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, Human Rights & Women's Commissions were dissolved in J&K. It was in 2021 that National Commission of Women started an initiative of Special Cells in J&K to substitute in some ways the work of State Women's Commission.

The news of imminent closure of the Special Cell for Women in Jammu & Kashmir on March 31, 2025, due to the discontinuation of funding by National Commission for Women (GOI) is ...