Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the state government will ask schools in the state to install CCTV cameras as a way to prevent sexual assaults on girl students.
He was responding to a calling attention motion raised by the ruling BJP’s Uma Khapare in the Legislative Council. Khapare had asked the question in the context of an incident in Mumbai where a school girl was sexually assaulted by two classmates who were also minors.
Some rich schools do have CCTV network. But we will try and instruct the aided and non-aided schools to set up CCTV cameras as a deterrent measure. It would naturally discourage some people from indulging in such acts, Fadnavis said.
The state government will hold a joint meeting of school education department and home department and draw up an action plan, Fadnavis added.
The good touch-bad touch awareness programme is already underway in many schools and it is like developing a sixth sense among girl students. If a person is luring them, they should be able to sense it and save themselves, he said.