College and school students who attended the women's safety and awareness campaign have appreciated Doon police's efforts and said that they got chance to interact with the police and learnt several steps being taken by the police for the safety of women in the district.
This campaign began on Wednesday and will conclude on January 12. Sania Malik, a college student said, “Some people have negative perception about police and it’s functioning. After attending this workshop, I got chance to visit police station and interact with police officers and personnel. During workshop, I learnt about steps being taken by the police for the safety of women.”
Anita Gupta, class XII student of SGRR Public School, Patelnagar said that she learnt several things regarding women’s safety. Very few students are aware of Government steps for women’s safety. She would attend the entire five-day workshop. Monika Pal, a class XII student said that large number of students should attend this workshop because there are lots of things they can learn from here.
At one place, students can know about Government’s welfare schemes for women, martial arts and other safety techniques. Puja Bisht and Meenu Bisht said that due to lack of awareness among women about existing laws which provide them safety, they do not go to police station for registering FIR after being harassed.
Such workshops should be organised from time to time so that maximum number of students can benefit. In the five days of women's safety and awareness campaign, workshops on women related issues, laws protecting women under different circumstances and career counseling will be organised, apart from training on Judo, Karate, horse riding and self defense techniques. Documentary on women’s protection and safety will be screened. Apart from this, painting, slogan, essay competitions, debate and discussion on women related issues will be held during the programme.
The participants will be informed about cyber crime, welfare schemes for women launched by the central and state governments. On the concluding day, a rally on women’s safety will be organised in the city. On the first day of the programme, a play on how a college or school going girl became victim of eve teasing, rape or other offences in a party or other situations forcing her to take extreme step after coming under the influence of alcohol and drugs was staged by women police personnel.
Participants were shown various weapons and they were given air guns to fire some rounds. Finally, participants visited Cantt police station to learn about police functioning. Women representing various government and private organisations include Nivedita Kukreti, Madhubala Chaturvedi, Ramendri Mandrawal, Kamini Gupta and around 400 students from various government and private colleges and schools attended the first day of the programme.