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Mobile jammers, CCTVs, barbed wires at Goa
schools
Sunday January 27, 2013 07:59:19 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: From mobile jammers to CCTV cameras to barbed wires, Goa's schools are taking
no chances ever since the spine-chilling rape of a seven-year-old
girl in a school toilet Jan 15 shocked the state.
With the rapist still untraced and on the run and a team of over a
dozen policemen floundering in their probe, institutions spurred
on by a worried education ministry are now coming up with
'innovations' to keep their children safe.
At the institution where the rape occurred, Deepvihar School,
funded by the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), a central government
agency will install 14 close circuit TV (CCTV) cameras in its
premises as a security measure.
"We are installing 14 CCTV cameras. At the latest PTA (parents
teachers association) meet, we have identified spots where we want
the cameras to be installed," a spokesperson for the school
management said.
Being close to a port, and run by the port trust authorities
themselves, the school is already guarded by Central Industrial
Security Force (CISF) personnel.
Goa Police have recommended mobile phone jammers for the security
of children in school premises.
Another leading school, A.J. de Almeida School, located 30 km from
here in Ponda, also is reeling from the shockwaves of the minor
girl's rape.
The school authorities have now decided to ring the school with
barbed wires to ensure that "unnecessary elements" do not enter
the premises.
"We have a compound wall but to make sure that no one scales over
it, we have installed barbed wire on it now," said Bhasker
Khandeparker, chairman of the trust which runs the school.
He told IANS that the school was also in the process of
eliminating the entry of random outsiders from the wing where
primary students are located.
"Anyone who comes in will have to carry some kind of identity card
which will be deposited with the guard," he said.
A reputed school here which caters to the upper middle class
segment and has children of leading politicians, bureaucrats and
businessmen on board is also planning to install CCTV cameras on
its premises. It has engaged a consultant to enhance security.
"The security consultant has been engaged to increase the security
level which we have at present. The brief is to plug all security
related loopholes," a school official said on condition of
anonymity.
The Goa State Women's Commission (GSWC) has already recommended
that girl students should be discouraged from being attended to
alone by male teachers.
"No girl student should be taken for any other exam/extra
classes/coaching, explanations, physical training, etc., alone in
a locked room specially by a male teacher/physical education
teachers," outgoing chairperson of the GSWC Ezilda Sapeco has said
in her written recommendations to the state education ministry.
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