Worried by the Uber rape incident in Delhi, Indore district administration has alerted all its agencies to take caution against such recurrences in the city.
“Apparently learning a lesson from Uber incident, we are taking necessary steps to ensure all such cabs running in the city are fitted with GPS system,” said Collector Tripathy, adding that administration has also decided to carry out compulsory police verification for all drivers before they were hired by private cabs, school and colleges bus managements.
Talking to this newspaper, Tripathi said the administration was also contemplating the idea of recruiting women conductors for buses in all those co-ad as well as girls schools so as to avoid incidents like eve-teasing.
Meanwhile, the district administration in association with the Police department and other Government departments has decided to organise RsRahgiri’ from December 14 every Sunday to encourage people towards maintaining a healthy life and preserve environment.
After Bhopal, Indore will be second city in Madhya Pradesh which will go for RsRahgiri’.
District collector Akash Tripathi informed that initially the RsRahgiri’ programme will be held in Vijay Nagar locality from Vijay Nagar Square to Bapat Square every Sunday between 7 am to 10 am wherein 29 sporting events and activities including, cycling, walking, yoga, karate, aerobics, chair race will be organised. Besides there will also be reading zone for the participants wherein they can read different newspapers of the day.
The Collector said the whole objective behind organising RsRahgiri’ in the City was to encourage health and environment awareness among people to lead a healthy life. The ‘Rahgiri’ will also have facilities of health drinks, juice, sprouts which will be available to the people on chargeable basis.
He said after seeing response of the people, the ‘Rahgiri’ programme will be organised in 10 more localities of the city so that benefit of such programmes can be availed by people living in other localities.