Police Commissioner to call meeting on women security

The Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi will call an urgent meeting of various NGOs, distressed women and members of the Delhi Women Commission along with senior police officials to hear their woes and find immediate solutions to their problems.
Expressing serious concern over 70 per cent cases of rapes and sexual assault on women by their immediate acquaintances and relatives, Bassi reiterated that self-defence training for girls from the age of seven years should be introduced in the school curriculum and also stressed on gender sensitisation courses for police officers to make them able to deal with women issues sensitively.

"Self-Defence should be included in the curriculum of the schools right from the age of 7-8. This would help her to defend her when she reaches the vulnerable age group," said Bassi addressing a seminar of Delhi Commission for Women titled 'Role of Men, Family and Community in Women's Security'.
He said that along with remedial measures, the mindset of people also has to change to curb crimes against women.
Member of Parliament K C Tyagi held degradation of the mental psyche and a narrow mind set towards women responsible for such shameful acts.
"Unless or until we see in every women a respectful mother, sister or daughter the incidents of obnoxious sexual assaults will never come to an end and no law of the land would be able to curtail these abominable incidents," he said.

He demanded inclusion of more than 30 per cent of women in the Indian judiciary.

Tyagi also appealed to the Police Commissioner and the police machinery of the country to generate confidence in the women community so that they are able to come to police stations more freely and with confidence to register their complaints, which is unfortunately not the case at present.
The Chairman of the Delhi Women Commission, Barkha Shukla Singh, emphasised upon the need to educate women from the backward classes and rural areas.
Among the others present at the seminar were MP D P Tripathi, social activist Bhairvee, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, Journalist Deepak Chaurasia and others.