Overview
- The Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu chaired a high-level review on Monday and issued administrative directives for universities and civic agencies to tighten student safety.
- Directions include nominating a dedicated nodal police officer for each college, deploying plainclothes surveillance, forming campus Action Bodies and inter-college women's safety committees to improve reporting and redressal.
- Officials were ordered to carry out safety audits of paying-guest accommodations, register PGs with university and police records, and remove hazards such as stationary buses, encroachments and broken boundary walls on approach roads.
- Infrastructure steps focus on repairing street lights, integrating CCTV on routes to metro stations, regulating autos and e-rickshaws, and increasing U-Special and Ladies Special buses to improve last-mile connectivity for students.
- The package also asks for a student safety app with emergency alerts and GPS location sharing; implementation and measurable results remain pending as multiple agencies and universities operationalize the orders.