New Delhi, Sep 20 (PTI) Making small bottles of pepper spray available at a very low price is a "key strategy" for enhancing the security of the fairer sex proposed by a police- backed study, which found that markets and colleges are the places where the capital's women feel most insecure.
This and many other recommendations form part of the study "How secure or insecure are women in the city of Delhi" conducted by the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science for the police think-tank Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD).
"Every girl should carry pepper spray and it should be available in a small bottle at a very low price ... Easily available in the market," said the study, for which 70 women each were interviewed in markets, colleges, railway stations, malls, ISBT, airport, slums and villages.
The study recommends that women should always move in groups if possible and should carry contact numbers of women helpline and police besides having "some basic knowledge" of law.
About 80.40% of women interviewed at market places said they felt insecure at the place while the figure for colleges was 72.10 per cent. Shopping malls came third where 60 per cent of respondents said they felt insecurity.
Level of insecurity was lowest among slum dwellers (8.70 per cent) followed by respondents from village (22.8 per cent).
Personal facts like low level of confidence and alcoholic spouses made slum dwellers (80 per cent of the respondents) insecure, the study said.
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