Rising cases of crime against women have irked females residing in State Capital. Taking a step ahead on women safety, newly elected vice-president of RU Student Union, Puja Kumari alongwith others met City SP Kishore Kaushal, on Monday and discussed possible measures for beefing up security at educational institutions to provide safe environment to female candidates on campus premises.
The recent incident where a BTech student was raped and burnt has instilled fear among those candidates who come to college from remote areas, said Kumari. “Girls often complain about eve teasing, stalking and molestation. Number of women constables deployed within the peripheral of colleges and coaching centres need to be increased. Additional force is required to tackle such incidents. Besides, use of social media to tackle untoward incident is the need of an hour, we have spoken on various aspects of increasing layers of security at colleges,” said, Puja Kumari.
On the other side, student union representatives being the voice of hundreds of students, the City SP has asked the office bearers to act promptly and publicise — ‘Shakti’ mobile application, designed especially for women in distress. “The elected representatives have kept several points. We have asked them to popularise the android-based mobile application among females describing its benefits. Soon Whatsapp group will also be created for further making the task more reliable and easy in dispersing the important inputs among the stakeholders. Soon workshop will be organized for the same in different educational cradles,” added, City SP, Kishore Kaushal.
The City SP also emphasized on conducting a special drive at educational institutions to stop the sale of liquor, cigarettes and other addictive stuffs as per the guidelines of the Supreme Court on banning these stuffs completely in and around the periphery of institutes.
“As per the norms prescribed by the Apex Court of India, a drive will be conducted from January 2017 to ban all addictive materials. Students will be sensitized on various aspects including health and legal facets as well under the expert supervision,” Kaushal pointed out.
The leader also mentioned that several cases of eve-teasing, molestation go unreported here in urban city due to social taboo. “We also need to change the mindset of student by instilling them with confidence and by conducting seminars at a regular interval on different topics. We are also planning to take help from civil society members,” added Kumari.
Recently, few colleges have also announced to conduct martial art training sessions for girls to empower them and to make them well versed with different techniques of self-defense.