Chennai: Taking a strong view
of the recent incident of rape of two minor girls, Tamil Nadu government on
Thursday announced new guidelines for running hostels to ensure safety and security
for girl students, teenage girls and working women across the state.
The new guidelines makes it mandatory for hostels to install CCTV camera,
digital video recorder and appointment of
women wardens for every 50 girls in a hostel, round-the-clock security guards
and separate and habitable rooms, in case of a co-ed hostel, Chief Minister J
Jayalalithaa said in a statement.
Laying
down infrastructure requirements for running hostels for women with a total of
23 guidelines, she said concerned
government officials would approve the hostel infrastructure if it qualified
the recommendations.
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