Buckle up for women safety

Approximately 106 rape cases are recorded every day in different cities of India and four out of every 10 victims are minors. It is this shocking and alarming state of crime against women that prompted the three BSc Computer Science students of Chandigarh University, Gharuan, to find solution to the menace in India. Studying in the final year, Javtesh Singh belongs to Muktsar Sahib while Lalita Thakur and Sushil Kumar hail from Pathankot, Punjab. Together they have invented “Queen Belt,” a safety gadget for women protection. 

“Queen Belt” looks like an ordinary belt, but comes with a circuit that has a mobile sim, along with a GPS-tracking system fitted into it. While explaining the working of the safety belt, Javtesh said, “The belt comes with an electronic circuit breaker system, which is activated once someone tries to forcibly open the belt. Hence, the mobile sim fitted in it makes a distress call to the three numbers fed into it”. In addition to the call, the caller also gets the location of the victim through GPS tracking system, which can be traced using any. 

“I get very upset to read news about the rape incidents in media and wanted to do something for it,” said Laita Thakur. She further added, “We started the work on the development of the belt in December 2017 and by April this year, we were ready with the prototype.” The trio have filed a patent with Government of India and are currently in the process to commercially launching the product through their start-up Arbad Electronics, which they have jointly started at Chandigarh University-Technology Business Incubator (CU-TBI).   — TNS