File picture of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that his family gets restless till the time his daughter returns home from the IIT campus, where she is a student. His comments came as part of a consultation on the women's rights bill.
The tension at home, said Mr Kejriwal, was because the metro station is at a little distance away from his residence. "If I being Chief Minister am so concerned for the safety of my daughter then I can understand the feeling of common man," he said.
The Delhi Chief Minister then said his government has taken several measures like installing CCTV cameras, meant to act as a deterrent to crimes against women.
"Similarly, in buses we are installing CCTV cameras, which will bring an end to 'road side Romeos' but organsied gangs equipped with knife may not fear CCTV cameras but there will be decline in cases by 50-60 per cent," he said.
Mr Kejriwal insisted that women's safety is a priority for his government, and that the women's rights bill, which would be brought in the next Assembly session, would give more teeth to the Delhi Commission for Women.
The proposed Charter of Women's Rights Bill, 2015, aims at strengthening Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) by giving it more administrative and judicial powers, and will incorporate recommendation made by Justice JS Verma Committee in the wake of the Nirbhaya rape case.
"If a girl is going out then she should feel secure. If she will feel secure then her parents will feel secure. We need to provide a system where women can roam freely around the city, feeling safe and secure," Kejriwal said during the consultation on the draft bill organised by the Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC) at the Delhi Secretariat.