Madhya Pradesh Education Minister Deepak Joshi on Monday said the government would ensure that coaching institutes don’t hold classes after 8 pm, days after the gang rape, but retracted his statement after protests from students.
The 19-year-old victim was returning from a coaching institute around 7 pm on October 31 when she was allegedly raped by two men. Two more men joined them later. Joshi, after protests by boys and girls who demanded more security and better policing, said he had not restricted timings. He said he had suggested that the institutes organise the batches for girls to study before boys.
He said the coaching institutes should make better use of Information Technology so as to get alerts when girls reach home. The minister said his department would bring in an IT firm to develop an app that students would download on their phones that will allow them to connect to a Dial 100 service for first-response police vehicles.
