With cases of eve-teasing on rise in the city, the UT State legal Services Authority has started organising awareness seminar on legal rights of the girls and eve-teasing control laws.
The State legal Services Authority (SlSA) is organising legal awareness classes-cum-seminar against eve-teasing in schools of the UT of Chandigarh. In the legal awareness classes-cum-seminar against eve-teasing organiSed in the schools of southern sectors on Wednesday, the speakers highlighted common causes of eve teasing like lack of legal knowledge, shyness, social dominance, ignorance, lack of education and exposure, exploitation of girls.
Rajeshwar Singh, law officer of SlSA informed the students about the aims and functions of SlSA. He highlighted various legal rights of children, women and provisions of the legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. The questions and problems of students were discussed and answered during the seminar. He said that the purpose of seminar was to make aware the gathering about the rights of girls as well as boys for ensuring that children get benefits provided by the Rights for free and compulsory education. He stressed that eve teasing can be tackled on following mantras — prevention, protection and participation — of children, in order to tackle the menace. In the recent past, the SlSA has organiSed awareness seminars in the schools in Sector 38 west, Sector 19, Sector 39 among others