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CCTVs In Delhi Classrooms, Parents Can Monitor: Student Safety Or Snooping?

Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 5:41 p.m.

b'Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has decided to install close-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in all state government school classrooms, a move that has apparently been triggered by some recent incidents of violence against children in school premises in and around Delhi. Today, in Lucknow, the principal of a school was arrested after a class 1 student was attacked allegedly by a class 6 student. On The Buck Stops Here, we ask: how can we make our schools safer? Are CCTVs the answer? Does this measure ensure student safety or is it a gross violation of privacy?'