Each school should have one police constable from the local police station to look after its premises and each school should have safety committees that would look beyond infrastructure of the school - such and many more ideas were presented by experts as well as school representatives, at a workshop jointly organized by different schools from across city. Following few incidents of the recent past, alarming concerns have been raised over safety and security of students in schools which has made schools to come together in brainstorming on what all can be done.

First such workshop titled – Safe Schools Safe students – was held at Parel’s Damodar hall on Thursday evening. It saw participation from over 150 school representatives across city. The session also saw participation from additional police commissioned (South Mumbai) Pratap Dighavkar and psychologist Dr. Ashish Deshpande. The initiative taken up by school principals across city has culminated into forming a committee comprising of school, parents and government representatives to brainstorm on different initiatives to ensure safety of students.