<p>With an aim to bring gender sensitisation among school students and tackle eve-teasing, a month-long workshop was organised by the New Delhi Municipal Council. <br /><br /></p>.<p>‘Zero tolerance to eve-teasing’ was the theme of the experiment in senior secondary schools run by the NDMC, which concluded on Sunday.<br /><br />“The programme aimed to make students aware about the humiliation that one goes through if eve-teased. Students are full of energy at this tender age and if channelled in a constructive way can lead to tremendous results,” said NDMC director of education Vidushi Chaturvedi. <br /><br />The initiative included night-outs for girl students. “These girls were taken for night-outs at Jawaharlal Nehru University to watch a play. After that they ate at a dhabha there,” said Chaturvedi. <br /><br />“It was an effort to make them fearless at any time of the day or night,” she said.<br />Around 40 students were selected for different senior secondary schools under the limits of NDMC. <br /><br />Of these, 40 students, around half of them were boys. “We consciously wanted more boys to participate in the programme. They learnt a lot during this period about the problems faced by the opposite sex,” the director said.<br /><br />These 40 students were divided into groups of six. <br /><br />“They went to different localities and informed kids about the menace of eve-teasing and its after effects. They were accompanied by at least two male teachers,” Chaturvedi said. Students also talked with parents to know about vulnerable areas. <br />Gender sensitisation<br /><br />“They were deployed near bus stands and markets that fall on the way to school from their homes. When they saw a teenager passing lewd comments to girls, they gave him counselling and pursued him to join the workshop,” the director said.<br />The students even went to police stations to know about complaints filed regarding eve-teasing. <br /><br />More such programmes will be introduced to bring awareness among schoolchildren, the director added.</p>
<p>With an aim to bring gender sensitisation among school students and tackle eve-teasing, a month-long workshop was organised by the New Delhi Municipal Council. <br /><br /></p>.<p>‘Zero tolerance to eve-teasing’ was the theme of the experiment in senior secondary schools run by the NDMC, which concluded on Sunday.<br /><br />“The programme aimed to make students aware about the humiliation that one goes through if eve-teased. Students are full of energy at this tender age and if channelled in a constructive way can lead to tremendous results,” said NDMC director of education Vidushi Chaturvedi. <br /><br />The initiative included night-outs for girl students. “These girls were taken for night-outs at Jawaharlal Nehru University to watch a play. After that they ate at a dhabha there,” said Chaturvedi. <br /><br />“It was an effort to make them fearless at any time of the day or night,” she said.<br />Around 40 students were selected for different senior secondary schools under the limits of NDMC. <br /><br />Of these, 40 students, around half of them were boys. “We consciously wanted more boys to participate in the programme. They learnt a lot during this period about the problems faced by the opposite sex,” the director said.<br /><br />These 40 students were divided into groups of six. <br /><br />“They went to different localities and informed kids about the menace of eve-teasing and its after effects. They were accompanied by at least two male teachers,” Chaturvedi said. Students also talked with parents to know about vulnerable areas. <br />Gender sensitisation<br /><br />“They were deployed near bus stands and markets that fall on the way to school from their homes. When they saw a teenager passing lewd comments to girls, they gave him counselling and pursued him to join the workshop,” the director said.<br />The students even went to police stations to know about complaints filed regarding eve-teasing. <br /><br />More such programmes will be introduced to bring awareness among schoolchildren, the director added.</p>
