The Delhi Government on Tuesday directed all hospitals and medical colleges under its jurisdiction to ensure that all the CCTVs installed in their premises are functional to ensure safety of doctors and students, particularly women.
The directive follows Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj’s call for urgent action by the Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on March 21, against a professor accused of assault at BSA college, Rohini, citing the Chief Secretary’s perceived lack of empathy for victims.
Protests had erupted outside the college premises earlier this week after several female students alleged physical abuse and sexual harassment by the professor. A case has been registered in the matter and police have been deployed outside the college premises to avoid any untoward incident.
However, to ensure that such untoward incidents do not happen in other colleges and hospitals, the State Government has issued a directive, seeking necessary CCTV provisions to be made immediately to cover all relevant areas to ensure safety and security of all girl students in all the medical colleges.
The direction further instructed for proper arrangement of audio-video recording in viva-voices of all girl students in all medical colleges taken by the male faculties within a week’s time, and till such time, a female observer during such viva-voices.
