Uttarakhand: Village boy creates innovative device for women's safety, wins gold

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Time and again the lawmakers of the country have promised to create a safe environment for women while some stringent steps have been taken, unfortunately, the crime against women has continued to escalate and has turned more brutal recently. The latest incidents against women in Manipur have jolted the country already, raising a question for the system when will women feel safe in the country? With a surge in crimes against women, a teenage boy in Uttarakhand has created an SOS device that ensures women's safety. 17-year-old Rohit Parihar, residing at a tiny hamlet called Wajula in Uttarkhand's Bageshwar district, has created an innovative device that can be inserted into any handbag or purse.

Parihar, a commerce student at Atal Utkrisht Param Singh Parihar GIC said, "Women carry a handbag or a purse most of the time, and it can never appear suspicious to any offender if a safety device is kept inside it". The prototype of the Smart Device for Women Safety device has three key features--Emergency Automatic Calling, GPS navigation, and a spy camera. He explained: "If the woman presses the trigger button on this device so automatically the family people and local police station will get the call.

After that, the police or family can track her via GPS location to rescue the woman. The spy camera will record everything around, and the recording can be watched later". With an increasing number of crimes against women in the country, Parihar felt like making a device that can work at ground level.

He worked on the device last year in December. The safety device can be charged like a smartphone, and can work for a maximum of 27 hours and a minimum of 24 hours, the teenager claimed. The GPS of the device can work without the