Gunwanti Paraste (Pune): Amidst piling complaints of women, the  National Commission for Women (NCW) will visit Pune on June 27 and 28 to hear 107 complaints from the city.

The complaints include right to live with dignity, sexual harassment at work place, right to exercise choice in marriage, dowry and others.

Sources stated that the commission members will first meet the police investigators to find out the status of the complaints on June 27.

Later, a public hearing will be conducted on June 28. The commission had received these complaints online in the last three years.

The NCW was set up as a statutory body in January 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990 to review the constitutional and legal safeguards for women, recommend remedial legislative measures and facilitate redressal of grievances and advise the government on all policy matters affecting women.

The Complaints and Counseling Cell of the commission processes all the complaints whether received orally, written or suo moto.