Assessment of eve teasing among university students of North Campus of university of Delhi

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Navjot Kamboj (Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi, Sirsa, Haryana)
Ketaki Chandiok (Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi, Delhi)

A large percentage of Indian women have faced or are facing the scrape of Eve teasing. Whether it is a public transport system, public places, shopping malls or multiplexes, women find themselves vulnerable to the threat of eve teasing everywhere. The present study deals with the issue of Eve teasing in the North campus of Delhi University. The present study is based on both the primary sources as well as secondary sources. The primary data were collected by personal contact with respondents of the North campus of University of Delhi. They were Personally contacted and informally interviewed for finding out if they were ever subjected to Eve teasing by males of their university or outsiders. In case they did face Eve teasing then what type of eve teasing incident, they were subjected to. The results reveals that all respondents of our study are aware about the truth of eve teasing, most of the students respond by verbal, very less students take legal step against the teaser or report to police or University authority. In the present study the deficit of punishment by court or legal authorities and scarcity of respect to women observed to be the general reason for increasing eve- easing.