To ensure safety and security of women employees and students in all schools across the State, the Punjab Education department has constituted various committees at the State and district levels.
“The Government has taken required measures to ensure complete security and safety of the women employees as well as the girl students in all the schools,” said the State Education and language Minister Sikander Singh Maluka.
He said that the State-level committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Deputy Secretary School Education while Deputy Director School Education Pankaj Sharma would head the committee at the Directorate level.
The District level committee would be headed by senior most District Education Officer or the Principal, he added.
Maluka said that separate committees have also been constituted on circle level so that the women’s grievances could be redressed at their level only. In all these committees Member Secretary would be among the women. In District level committee, NGOs would be the member secretary.
“Punjab Government is contemplating to inculcate self-defense training and confidence building courses for women in schools and colleges with an aim to ensure 100 per cent safer environment for women,” he said.