Women’s safety needs to become a priority in the country – be it their homes, workplaces or transport system – they need to feel safe, and measures are being taken to ensure it.
Indian Railways is taking its offer to guarantee ladies’ security on its trains to next level. In its most recent push to reinforce the security of ladies travelers on trains, the Northern Eastern Railways is set to convey ladies police personnel on trains amid night hours and it is additionally wanting to introduce panic button in each coaches or compartments. Among other striking recommendations are the establishment of CCTV cameras in ladies coaches of the sub-urban trains with live monitoring. In the meantime, Railways likewise proposed establishment of CCTV cameras on stages to cover ladies coaches amid stopovers.
Since the Railways is focussing on “ladies and child or infants safety” this year, it designs the arrangement of ladies police staff in rural trains amid night hours other than enlistment of ladies in the RPF among others, recruitment of women in the RPF among others, chief PRO of NER, Sanjay Yadav told PTI.
With numerous reports of offenses with ladies voyaging alone in trains, the indian railway authority additionally proposes to have panic buttons in each railway compartments. This frenzy catch will be connected with the guard coach, as indicated by a PTI report.
Yadav said that these ladies coaches would be set at helpful spots for simple reach of ladies voyagers over the electric switches. On squeezing this catch, the railroad staff show inside the prepare would be educated instantly about the crisis circumstance in the specific coach.
The ladies voyagers, at display need to rely upon either on the helpline numbers or by the chain-pulling if there should arise an occurrence of crisis circumstances. The panic buttons will guarantee that prompt move is made on occasion of crisis.