Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Police is set to launch a website which will list the names of sex offenders, an official said here on Wednesday.
The police will maintain a register of sexual offenders and their names will be displayed on its official website, Inspector General (Law and Order) Sanjay Kundu said in a statement.
He said a decision in this regard was taken at a meeting chaired by Director General of Police B. Kamal Kumar on Tuesday.
It was also decided at the meeting that gender-sensitisation training would be organised for all the police personnel.
“This will probably make Himachal the first state to adopt a standard procedure to deal with crime related to sexual offences,” he said.
Four schools for physically challenged: Meanwhile, Himachal Pradesh has notified four senior secondary schools in the state as inclusive institutions where the physically challenged will be provided education, Shimla-based public welfare trust Umang Foundation said on Tuesday.
“The government has notified four senior secondary schools as inclusive where disabled students will study along with other children. Eight more schools are to be made inclusive schools soon,” foundation chairman Ajai Srivastava said in a statement.
Srivastava said the four schools notified are in Shimla, Nagrota Bagwan, Nahan and Jogindernagar towns.
Umang Foundation on Monday organised a film festival on disability with the support of internationally renowned ‘We Care Film Fest’ in the Government Girls Senior Secondary School in Portmore in Shimla, which has been notified as inclusive institution.
It honoured 26 physically challenged students to sensitise people about inclusive education.
Srivastava said 20 girls with visual and hearing disabilities are studying in the Portmore school.
Interestingly, it was the same school which had denied admission to the disabled girls in 2011. Later, on the intervention of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, the school gave admission to three blind girls and waived off their entire fee. (IANS)
