The teased college students are cut up with the silence of their representatives in Patna University Students’ Union (Pusu) over their plight despite promising during electioneering special security measures for girls on the campus.

Within three months of the Pusu election, the tormented girl students are disillusioned with the union. The stoic silence of Pusu on the girl students’ sufferings despite its central panel comprising two female members — general secretary Anshu Kumari and secretary Anu Priya — has come as a rude shock to them.

The college students claimed that not a single Pusu member ever approached them after the union elections on December 11. They are as useless as most of the college authorities and police when it comes to women’s security on the campus, said a college student on the condition of anonymity.

Puja Kumari, a final year postgraduate English student at Darbhanga House, said: “The situation of girl students at colleges and departments of Patna University is vulnerable. They even fear walking alone on streets.”

Giving an instance of eve-teasing on the campus, Puja said: “Whenever we go to washroom, some boys pass comments such as dil par lagi chot (heart suffered an injury). Standing on the terrace has also become a problem for girl students. There are few boys who try to click our photographs using their mobile handsets. When we challenge them, they escape easily because there are no security personnel to check their identity.”

Sewantee Surbhi, another student of the English department, said: “Before the Pusu election, members of various students’ organisations had promised to address the problems of girl students. They had promised to set up women’s cells as well as complaint boxes in all colleges and departments. Nearly three months on, neither any women’s cell has been constituted nor any complaint box has been installed.”

Barring the constitution of the Gender Sensitisation Cell and meeting vice-chancellor Shambhu Nath Singh to register a protest against the molestation of girls on the Patna College premises on Friday, Pusu general secretary Anshu had nothing to show on the women’s security front. She was speechless after she learnt majority of the students were unaware of the cell’s existence.

Pusu president Ashish Sinha admitted that the girls’ security was a big issue. The university and Pusu had done precious little so far to address it, he said. Sinha said: “We will make identity cards mandatory. Policemen would be deployed in colleges.”

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