Teachers and not the police can stop Nirbhaya-like incidents in the country, Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria said on Saturday. “There was a Nirbahaya incident. Only teachers can stop such incidents. No police force can stop such incidents. Only country’s teachers have that power,” <g data-gr-id="22">Katheria</g> said addressing a function where national awards were given away to teachers for distinguished service for 2014.
‘Nirbhaya’ is the fictional name given to a 23-year-old paramedical student, who was brutally gang-raped and mercilessly assaulted in a moving bus in the national capital in December 2012. She died while battling for life during treatment in a Singapore hospital. “I come from Agra. I see big buildings in Noida while coming from there. 20 or 30-storeyed buildings. They are not the parameter of development. But the students, as some learned persons have said, are the real capital of the nation <g data-gr-id="24">and and</g> teachers need to utilise this capital to make our country more powerful and developed,” <g data-gr-id="23">Katheria</g>, Minister of State for Human Resources Development, said.