PATNA: The state home department is to launch a mobile app within ten days for the safety and security of women in the state capital, DIG (central range) Rajesh Kumar announced on Tuesday.Explaining its features, he said women would have to download the app and feed all the information to send a message to nearby police station and their family members if they land in trouble. “They will have to press power button twice and the SMS will be automatically sent to their parents and the local police station along with the location,” said Rajesh.The DIG, who launched a police security booth at Magadh Mahila College during the awareness programme, said all the girls’ schools and women colleges would soon have a substation with four women constables. “To lodge any complaint, women can easily take help from the constables, who will report the matter to the local police and Mahila Thana,” he said and added that all the police security booths would be monitored by DSPs, who would visit the nearby educational institutes once every week. He also announced self-defence training programme for women from September 20 at Eco Park from 7am to 8am and 4pm to 5pm. “The training will be free for girls,” he said.He also announced a ‘girls guiding centre’ to function at Patna traffic police station HQ from Wednesday between 2.30pm and 3.30pm. The DIG advised students to avoid chatting with strangers on social networking sites. “Awareness regarding cyber safety is very low among youths. They should know the dos and don’ts when online. In several cases, most of the profiles on social networking sites are found fake,” he said, adding that women should become independent and know how to protect themselves from molesters.

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