Colleges can’t be lax about safety on their premises

Empty beer bottles and garbage dumped on the college campus. PIC/BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

A sprawling college campus in Jogeshwari is popular for morning joggers and those who intend to visit the election, Aadhaar, or education inspector's offices.

The large area of the educational campus is difficult to monitor, especially when it comes to littering or trespassing. The problem often presents itself at the second gate of the campus, which acts as an entrance to the government offices, our report highlighted specifically. There have been empty alcohol bottles at times, spotted outside the education inspector's office. While there is CCTV surveillance and security to ensure safety, how can booze bottles and garbage, too, surface on campus?

As per officials, the college already utilises 102 CCTV cameras along with security guards, wardens, and Nirbhaya Pathak vans. Owing to troubles like littering, the college has also secured grants to make its gates higher.

Representatives from the offices on campus and the college must sit together, brainstorm and then take action on how they can secure the place further or plug any security loopholes. Even existing surveillance must be extremely sharp.

There must also be regular meetings with security staff or chief of security to ensure that the staffers are monitoring well, are at designated spots on time and there is no space for any lapse when it comes to these aspects. This is an educational institute with youngsters and safety must be top rung. Since the area has forest cover, too, good lighting plus powerful torches for staff is also necessary.

This edit column has highlighted earlier too about how good visibility can be a significant deterrent to any kind of crime and is of course, important in detection, too. Try to up all measures so that one can come as close to watertight safety as possible.