The Punjab Higher Education Department has unveiled an action plan to guarantee the appointment of female-only staff in female educational institutions throughout the province in a significant attempt to improve the safety of female students. The goal of this program, which targets both public and private institutions, is to give female students a safe environment.
Male employees have been moved from areas designated for female students. All educational institutions, including colleges, universities, and schools, are now required to have CCTV cameras.
Senior female officers will perform hourly checks to ensure compliance, and these cameras will keep an eye on mixed-gender workplaces during business hours.
Male employees are being replaced by female employees in professional training centers, hostels, and institutions exclusively for women. For at least 30 days, CCTV footage from these locations will be kept on file, enabling surveillance of locations that pose a risk to public safety, like dimly lit areas or remote hallways.
Additional security measures include limiting access to female hostels by male security guards and banning male cooks from working there. Female guards will now be stationed inside the hostel’s boundaries instead. To support these safety precautions, funds have been set aside for the prompt installation of CCTV systems.
All pertinent institutions and dorms have received notifications outlining these rules, which must be followed right away in order to guarantee a secure and encouraging learning environment for female students throughout Punjab.
The police completed the required procedures and gave the body to the family after the parents refused to pursue legal action. The student’s body was taken by the family to be buried in their hometown.
The student, who was from Sialkot, was enrolled in the Institute of Education and Research’s fifth semester. Reports of a female student at Punjab College being allegedly assaulted also surfaced in another incident.
The students responded by staging a sizable demonstration in front of the Gulberg campus. Enraged students damaged property inside and outside the college as a result of the security guards’ attempts to shut down the main gate and classrooms in an attempt to quell the protest. The students set chairs on fire and damaged CCTV cameras outside the college.
Students chanting slogans and protesting also came from a nearby campus close to MAO College. The female students also blocked Canal Road and demonstrated outside the college close to Muslim Town Mor.
