According to the data quoted by the police, as many as 28,539 persons participated in the survey, which included 40 per cent women
After schoolgirls in Rewari in Haryana's hinterland raised their voice against the sexual harassment they had to face while travelling to school in other villages, an online survey conducted by the Haryana Police reemphasised that a majority of girls and women in the state faced sexual harassment while commuting to schools and colleges.
With a recent hike in incidents of crime against women in the state, the Haryana police undertook an online survey from May 2-17 through the Mahila Police website "to assess the problem in the state and devise an action plan closer to the ground realities".
According to the data quoted by the police, as many as 28,539 persons participated in the survey, which included 40 per cent women. The survey entailed 16 questions covering various issues related to eve-teasing/sexual harassment and was open to participation from all age groups and genders. Over 48 per cent of the people who recorded their responses were between 20 and 30 years old.
Of the total number of respondents, 64.5 per cent said that they faced sexual harassment while commuting from schools and colleges, especially in buses and three-wheelers.
Responding to another question, 32.8 per cent respondents said a majority of the offenders were two-wheeler riders, while 22.8 per cent said they were among pedestrians and a majority of them operated in groups of two.
Seeking solutions, a majority of the respondents said that counseling of eve teasers, in the presence of parents, by the police would not make any difference and would incite them to be even more aggressive. At least 34.2 per cent of the respondents wanted more policewomen in plainclothes to be deputed outside schools and colleges to keep a check on such crimes, followed by regular patrolling.
Acceding that the problem gets aggravated during the time when girls and women return from schools, colleges and their workplace, OP Singh, Additional Director General of Police, Haryana Police, said: "We wanted to crowd-source the tactics to make our three-point action plan for women's safety more effective. It has given us a wealth of information about the prevalence and extent of eve-teasing in the state. For example, we found that people think that deputing policewomen in plainclothes will be more effective in keeping a check on such cases than just uniform patrolling and installing of CCTV cameras."
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