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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, FEB. 18. Taking a serious note of the involvement of a Principal and a Vice-Principal of the Government schools in the alleged rape of a 16-year old student, the Delhi Government has decided to constitute committees in all the schools to work out the security measures for students especially girls and also look into the cases of sexual harassment if any. Stating that yesterday's incident was "very unfortunate" and had to be seen in a larger context, Mr. Lovely said that although the incident did not take place in the school or any other government premises but it was an act of a disgusting mind. He said that the Government had already initiated prompt action against the culprits and terminated their services in addition to starting departmental proceedings them. Mr. Lovely said the committees would have a wider representation and they would especially be assigned the task of taking care of the sexual harassment incidents and take steps to avoid occurrence of any such incidents in future. He said it had been decided to strengthen boundary walls of all those schools that are lacking on this front and even stated that a security survey would be conducted in all the schools to gauge the situation from the safety aspect. The Education Minister said that this particular incident would not be allowed to act as a deterrent to the girl students from attending school and said that all necessary steps were being taken to reassure students on the issue of safety. The Minister was also disturbed by the fact that the Principal in question was giving private tuitions to the students when the government has banned such activity outside the school. He also indicated that the parents associations could also be associated with the issue of providing safety to the students and said the Shiksha Kalyan Samiti's have to play an important role in this issue.
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