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Safety
Matter: Gurgaon women get exclusive autos
Thursday December 16, 2010 05:49:10 PM,
IANS
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Gurgaon: The women in
this satellite town of the national capital who use public
transport can now feel safe as the police have started exclusive autorickshaws for women.
These autos will be pink coloured so that they can be identified
easily.
Gurgaon police have taken the step after a 30-year-old woman
working in a BPO here was abducted from Dhaula Kuan in Delhi and
gangraped in a moving goods carrier last month.
Gurgaon Police Commissioner S.S. Deswal was Wednesday present with
police heads of all the nearby states in the inter-state
coordination meeting at Delhi Police headquarters where the
strategy to ensure security for working women, especially in
Gurgaon and Delhi, was discussed.
"Twelve autos, especially for women, are being introduced first
and if the need is felt, more such autos will be deployed in
Gurgaon. Drivers verified with the Gurgaon police will run these."
"Initially, these autos will operate from Metro stations in
Gurgaon to major destinations inside Cyber City," Deswal said.
Gurgaon police are also open to the idea that female drivers
operate these autos.
Initially, this facility will be available at four Metro stations.
"There have been complaints of eve-teasing when women travel with
men in crowded autos. To make sure that women feel safe while
travelling to work and back home, we have introduced these autos,"
a police officer said.
The Delhi Metro recently earmarked one coach exclusively for women
in its trains.
Geetika, a resident of the Millennium City, said: "It is a good
initiative taken by Gurgaon police. At least the police is
concerned about our safety. I am sure it will help us."
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