Post date: Sep 03, 2013 12:57:28 PM
Governor of India's eastern West Bengal state, M.K. Narayanan, stresses on better policing to ensure women safety in the province while commenting on lack of discipline among the youth.
KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 03, 2013) (ANI) - Governor of India's eastern West Bengal state, M.K. Narayanan, stressed on the need for better policing to ensure women safety in the province while commenting on lack of discipline among the youth.
The increasing cases of sexual harassment against women have become the biggest cause of concern for the nation. And the gang rape of a young photojournalist by five men in one of the safest cities of India, Mumbai, has further raised an alarm among women in the country.While talking to high school students in Kolkata city on Tuesday (September 03) Narayanan said that safety issue was the biggest worry and it was important to develop citizen groups to check the crime against women.
He also said that a larger police force was required in the province to keep a check on the molesters.
Narayanan said that the state had the least number of police officials as compared to the rest of the country.
"I think we need much more citizens' groups involved to keep some eye on what is taking place. Unfortunately, as far as Bengal is concerned the number of policemen on the streets is very less. I think we have far less policemen than almost every state in the country. For several years we have neglected increasing the size of police force," said Narayanan.
India's former National Security Advisor, Narayanan, also spoke on lack of discipline amongst youth.
He said the indiscipline among the youth was a major problem in the age of liberalization and is the biggest hurdle in the country's progress.
"I think in this era of liberalisation and allowing the spirit to roam free, etc., discipline has taken a back seat. And my own, that is my background also, if you are not a disciplined country, whatever might be your own attributes; whether you are brilliant or capable or outstanding in any other way, we will not merit that," said Narayanan.
Women's safety in West Bengal has been in the spotlight since last year following the rape of a woman coming back from a nightclub.
In February 2013, the victim was leaving a nightclub on Park Street with a man she had befriended offered her a lift home. She was raped on the way and then thrown out of the car.
India introduced tougher rape laws earlier this year following mass protests over the fatal gang rape of a student on a Delhi public bus last December.