Wake up call for Haryana government

Terror of rapes in Haryana

Again shame… this time by a teacher, girls not to attend schools
By Kiran Deep

The decision of two villages of Jind in Haryana not to send the girls to schools in the wake of alleged rape of a girl by teacher is a major call for the state and central government to do something seriously to prevent the cases of rape. The villagers took this extreme step after finding not enough measures taken by the police, administration and the state government to protect their girls. Yesterday two villages of Jind district decided not to send their girls to school after a class IX student of government school was allegedly raped by a teacher. This is not the first incident, earlier six villages of Mahendergarh has also taken similar decision after rise in cases of sexual harassment. The condition of the girls seem to be much worse in Haryana in view of  a number of rapes and gang rapes took place in Haryana last year, this year also the cases of rapes and gang rapes are alarming. Haryana is a state where much more efforts required by the government to make the girls much secure and empowered as sex ratio is low.

People are hopeful that after much protest by the people against the rapes across the nation, the things would improve. However nothing substantial came out. It is unfortunate that these incident  happened in Haryana after so much protest, discussions and much talk about reforms in the country after two rape cases that took place in the National Capital Delhi include gang rape of a 23 year old girl  in December in last year and this year rape of a minor girl. After the gang rape of 23 year old girl, the Justice Verma committee was  formed, it came out with findings, recommendations and then Parliament has passed the anti rape bill. There is also much talk about the reforms in police. However these two incidents in Haryana show that the state and central government has to pay much attention to build confidence among the people so that villagers feel secure to send their girls to school.

EOM