'SHE FOR HER' to help eve-teasing victims in colleges

The SHE Teams of Rachakonda Commissionerate here today launched a new initiative- 'SHE FOR HER', wherein two girl students would be selected from each college to help the victims of eve-teasing in approaching police.
The move is aimed at creating a safer environment for girls on campus and the selected students will act as a bridge between police and their college mates.
"Public places are already taken care of by the SHE Teams through their decoy operation. But the girl students from colleges are still not coming forward to inform the police that they were being eve-teased," Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat said.

In order to overcome this problem, two senior girl students would be selected from each college and they will undergo orientation training. They will be empowered with awareness of the laws and Acts for crime against women, he said.
The SHE Teams were initially launched by Hyderabad Police and now operating across the state. These teams are tasked with cracking down on eve-teasers and stalkers.
Then they will be nominated as volunteers of 'SHE FOR HER' for their respective colleges, so that any girl student, if subjected to eve-teasing from the college can approach police through them.

"Those girl students selected for 'SHE FOR HER' will act as a bridge between police and college students. They can help other students with the information of how they can reach police," Bhagwat explained, at a event marking the launch of 'SHE FOR HER' initiative.

"This 'SHE FOR HER' initiative is a first of its kind in Telangana. For giving more safety in Rachakonda Commissionerate, we have 'margadarshak' (guidance) programmes and right now we initiated this 'SHE FOR HER' in each college," the Police Commissioner said.
He also requested members of the 'SHE FOR HER' programme to cooperate with SHE Teams to create safer environment for women.
Telangana Women's Commission Chairperson Tripurana Venkata Ratnam said, "Every volunteer of 'SHE FOR HER' should have the qualities of empathy, self-confidence, knowledge about latest laws related to crime against women."
She also suggested pre-marital counselling for students in colleges.