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Bid to check eve-teasing at DU

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Police to install closed-circuit television cameras on North Campus

Monitoring of these cameras will be done at Maurice Nagar, Roop Nagar police stations
“The yellow alert team will be a mass campaign that will soon spread across the Capital”

NEW DELHI: To bring down incidents of eve-teasing at Delhi University, 12 closed-circuit television cameras will be installed soon at different places on the North Campus.

Over the next three-four months, the police will install CCTV cameras in front of the School of Open Learning, St. Stephen’s College, S.G.T.B. Khalsa College, Post Graduate Women’s Hostel and other places such as Patel Chest crossing, both gates at the Vice-Chancellor’s Office, and Kranti Chowk, better known as Maurice Nagar. The announcement was made by Delhi University Students’ Union president Amrita Bahri at a press conference here on Tuesday.

The entire control and monitoring of these cameras will be done at the Maurice Nagar and Roop Nagar police stations. “This was one of the demands forwarded to the Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, to ensure safety and security of girl students. Delhi Police Commissioner Y. S. Dadwal has also approved of the plan. We believe that once the campus is under electronic surveillance, incidents of harassment will come down by 50-60 per cent as the eve-teasers will know that they are being constantly watched,” Amrita said.

The students’ union, she added, had also requested placement of cameras in other areas around the North Campus where most of the girls’ hostels and paying guest accommodations are located.

On the absence of functional streetlights on the campus, Amrita said Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had spoken to officials of North Delhi Power Limited to ensure that the problem is rectified soon.

The DUSU also released their agenda of different activities to be conducted during the next few months.

Taking a cue from India’s first woman police officer Kiran Bedi, who at a recent function on the campus urged the youth to take up the responsibility of sensitising society, the DUSU announced formation of a “yellow alert team”.

The members of the all-girls team will be drawn from different colleges and they will take turns to stand guard at busy junctions in and around the North Campus.

“The yellow alert team will be a mass campaign that will soon spread across the Capital. A helpline will be installed at the DUSU office and the members of the team will coordinate with each other as and when a call is received. It will become operational within a month,” said the DUSU president.

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