Vast improvements needed for women's safety: PM

April 21, 2013 12:44

Citing the horrific Delhi gangrape incident and gruesome assault on five-year-old girl here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there was a need to make "vast improvements" to ensure women's safety in the country.

He asked people to work collectively to uproot such depravity from the society.

"It is widely accepted that, as a country, we have vast improvements to make in these (safety, security and status of women) areas. These issues came into sharper focus after the horrific gangrape incident in Delhi last December.

"The gruesome assault on a little child a few days back reminds us of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society," Singh said.

The two brutal incidents -- gangrape of a girl in a moving bus on December 16 last year and rape of a five-year-old girl earlier this week -- had resulted in agitations by various sections, demanding better law and order to ensure women's security and stringent punishment to the culprits.

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