You are Akriti sharma of 25/A, Lajpat Nagar New Delhi. You are deeply concerned about the growing apathy of people towards eve-teasing in local buses. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing you concern and suggesting ways in which women can ensure their safety.
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LUCKNOW: Girls and women, who use public transport in the city, face incidents of eve-teasing more than twice in a week. Sharing general problems girls face in public transport, Bhawna Bisht, a college student said, "In auto-rickshaws, fellow commuters touch our legs or try to touch our shoulders and pretend as if they have kept their hands on the seat. They also pass lewd comments or sing vulgar songs." She added that they experience worst time, when they are travelling in a crowded bus. "The passengers deliberately collide with us while we are standing and pretend as if there is no space to stand," she said.
Endorsing similar view, Ayushi Srivastava, a working professional who daily commutes to her office by public transport said, "Ideally in tempos, three persons should sit in a seat, but tempo drivers accommodate four in it. Taking advantage of the situation, most of the time the commuters try to push me back or touch me. They continuously stare at me from a rear glass after adjusting it." She added that every time she had to say to them to sit properly. She gets support from the fellow commuters only when she raises her voice against it.
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Recalling a month-old incident,
Supriya Mishra
, a charted accountancy student said, "In an auto-rickshaw, a fellow passenger was touching me with the nudge of his elbow. First I thought that it might have happened by mistake, but soon I realised that he was doing it deliberately. Feeling uncomfortable, I changed the auto." She added that with increasing cases of eve-teasing in public transport, she has started avoiding public transport.
Similarly, Japinder Kaur complains that she regularly faces eve-teasing in public transport when she goes to her office at Sultanpur road. She said, "Eve-teasing has become a routine thing, and such incidents happen at least twice in a week. Some passengers start behaving properly, when told to sit in a right manner and others fight that they have not done anything wrong."
However, there are some girls who had got support from fellow commuters.
Anuradha Pant
, a working professional recalled an incident when she was travelling by an auto, "Some months ago, a passenger was touching me again and again and so I slapped him. He started arguing with me that it was by mistake. However, the auto driver asked that man to get down and said because of people like him, most girls avoid travelling in an auto-rickshaw."
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