Event Security in Delhi - Dia Mirza and Boman Irani at SRRC Campus - Youth Conference 2014

Denetim Services provided security at SRCC Youth Conference 2014, we provided quality bouncers, bodyguards, armed security personnel to maintain security at the event. For more details visit denetimservices.com. Guests included Dia Mirza and Boman Irani.

Bollywood stars gave a very good lecture on life, success, failure and lessons from their experiences to take forward. We at Denetim deployed tight security at the event to maintain proper order and safety for SRCC Guest. The security was successful with complete decorum maintained throughout the two day event held on 22nd and 23rd August, 2014. Please find the pictures of the event below:-

Life for a foreigner in India - How to understand safety in India?

Susan , who lives in Mcleodghanj, Dharamshala,the place of Dalai Lama, says that the community is one of the safest and harmless in the world. I wouldn't mind living here for another year. Yet , she leaves for her home around 7.00p.m when the Sun starts its descent.

Susan has been in India for years now and yet she makes it a point to start her home bound journey early and whenever she goes out for a drink she always takes trustworthy companions along. I am super safe during the day, I can walk anywhere,I can do anything, but certain precautions and I am good to go.



There are hundreds of foreigners who are living in various parts of India and follow the same protocol to stay safe and comfortable. Cities are better says Ann - I feel safe in big cities like Delhi, Mumbai , Bangalore, Chennai. I retort by asking "Delhi" -"Do you know about the December 16th Gang Rape case". She says that cities in India can be dangerous like cities anywhere in the world if woman do not take precautions , but we need to be a little more cautious in Delhi.

She states that Delhi is a NCR ( National Capital Region ) adjoining three states Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab. The porous borders and the lack of control of one police lets these criminals to run from one border to another and let the police of each state pass on the duty to the other. This creates a very unsafe situation for us. A foreigner traveling to Gurgaon for a event at night( takes 20 minutes) . Will find herself in an uncomfortable situation if someone teases her, as her complaint will be dismissed by Gurgaon police station stating its a Delhi case and viva versa in Delhi.



India is growing and generally considered safe, but these of hand incidents of rape and molestation shake the whole country. The problem is not just the attitude of the people, but also of our dear politicians, who have passed comments that have made RAPE sound like an everyday affair and just a petty crime. Their idea of rape is to find fault in the woman, find fault in media ( concentrated reporting of their area),find fault in westernisation of India, find fault in Bollywood.

So how does one understand the mixed, chaotic and crazy India. Are there any set parameters that can define the things to be careful of and things which can be controlled.



YES, there always are things you can do in India to stay safe, and they are the basics, such as never go out with strangers, never sit with an unknown person in his car, be vary of spiked drinks, dress as per the situation(slightly conservative) and always have a back up number to call.

Why are tourist spots the real target in India?

Travel to any tourist destination in India and you will find a melee of people - beggars, street hawkers, tour guides, pamphlet distributors, ice cream vendors and small exquisite item seller. As an International tourist you may find this very exciting to handle and enjoy the bright colours that come with this entourage of people waiting right outside your destination. But there is more than why meets the eye that travels to these places and includes smugglers, traffickers, touts and even anti - peace protesters, criminals.

So should a foreigner travel to India and visit these places, the answer is an affirmative yes but what are the things to take care of when travelling to such touristic places:-

1) Be vary of buying even booted water locally

2) Do not listent o touts , no matter nor good the deal

3) Never give assistance and money to a beggar or a street urchin

4) Do not eat any uncovered food

5) Sometimes even well educated people are involved, be careful before become friendly

6) Try always announce you are not alone even if you are

7) Always carry an emergency number

8) Refuse group pictures requested by locals

9) You will meet many foreigners so you won't feel trapped

10) Relax, India is strange but beautiful country 

When will India become a safe place for women?

As a solo foreign traveller once said" I love India, but only during daylight". This has been known for decades but the recent rape cases and atrocities against women have made the picture clearer for the International traveller. The Delhi gang rape case was so horrendous that it shook not just the world but also every Indian. So many foreigners that want to visit India ask - Why is it like this in India?

Travel to any tourist destination in India be it Taj Mahal, Agra or Qutub Minar, Delhi, you will notice many foreigners visiting in large groups, but you will also notice men lurching around looking for a chance to get a picture clicked with the foreign women. Foreigners do not understand the attraction to the white skin. For you information, the whole country is crazy about white skin, with skin creams that make you whiter have had the best laugh to the banks, this is a multi dollar industry feeding the young women with the dream of getting fairer instantly. Every potential groom is looking for a white bride. Every  luxury marriage in north india has rich people having white women as bartenders, servers and paying them Rs.10,000 per night. It is money that many european women won't earn in western countries also. The Industry is growing and it is being fed by contest images of the media. A famous movie takes it further - Zindagi Na milegi Dobara ( You only live once) famously portrays three men taking over their fears with a trip to Spain -  deep sea diving, bull running and sky jumping. Yet the main actresses are not Indian. Katrina Kaif, foreign born half Indian, looks English and another European actress. More and more Bollywood movies are depicting white women in the movies, feeding the already saturated mindset of the Indian. Indian middle class is still tolerable , since education and constant international travel helps you feel normal. The problem is the rest of India which is more than 600 million poor, the highest number for any country in the world.

A poor manual labourer works for less that $50 per day and works tirelessly the whole year with every few holidays. One will always see a labourer in dust and scanty clothes, moving around with cement, machines or some other construction material. For him to see a well dresses International woman walking alone on the road is a dream come true. The idea of indulging in an inappropriate act and the consequences do not waiver him. That is where the problem begins.

The richer farmers son, who now has Mercedes in villages and constantly visits places around India has a new sense of the power, armed with more information that he has been able to consume from the internet and having the best luxury in the village, he thinks he is invincible. This is scary not just for foreign women but Indian women too. We hear cases everyday and the media constantly displaying public anger on such rapes. But nothing changes and it will not change in the near future.

Women in India are treated as a second class citizen in the villages. Many huts and I mean more than 20 million of them do not have a toilet. This creates further risk for women when they go out to fields, riverside, forests to defecate. The recent Badaun Rape and Murder case in Uttar pradesh displays that clearly.

So what is the government doing? Well to start with nothing has been done  ever since we know, but they have strengthened the law, but does this help, we clearly doubt, execution in India is another story. CCTVs are being put, well India is a big country and it will take decades to have control through CCTVs. Infact , there are many cases against politician sons alleging rape. Moreover, the reaction politicians have when rapes happen will make you realise why the country is still not changing. Globalised, tech savvy and 3g connected, not for better assess but for worse control. Many cases have been reported where women's complaints of molestation, rape are not taken by the police in India. The shamelessness just does not go.

Nevertheless, foreigners if take certain precautions and follow some cultural rules will find them as safe as anywhere in the world. Foreign women have loved India and many keep coming back again and again. That the thing about India. Either you love it or you keep loving it.

Rape in India - The difficult reality

Rape in India is one of the most common crimes against women in India. The others are from the same category which involve stripping a woman of her rights and exploiting her - molestation, domestic violence, verbal abuse, conservative mindsets, dowry, child marriage, bride burning and many many more.

According to statistics the most reported rape cases are from :-

1. Delhi
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Rajasthan
4. West Bengal
5. Uttar Pradesh ( Badaun Rape Case happened here)
6. Maharashtra
7. Andra Pradesh

Another striking thing about rapes in India is that most rapes are committed by persons known to the victim. This clearly means watch who you become friends with and watch who you interact with when travelling to India.

There are 2 rapes per 100,000 women in India. This is what is very alarming and scary for the women residing in India.Unfortunately, Europe is much higher than this --  8.1 rapes per 100,000 person. 

 As evident the number of rape class is rising and there is no change in the mindset of the Indian Male.

Safety for foreign solo travellers in India - Am I safe as a female travelling to this kind of madness and chaos.

Delhi appears to have seen a drop of around 30% in foreign tourists. According to the latest footfall figures of the Archaeological Survey of India, based on ticket sales at the three world heritage sites in the city — Qutab Minar, Humayun's Tomb and Red Fort — there has been a sharp decrease in ticket sales to foreign tourists (who pay more than Indian tourists) in 2013-14, upsetting a trend of a steady rise since 2010 Commonwealth Games.

This has got the tourism industry worried with several industry experts attributing the sharp decline in foreign tourist arrivals to the adverse publicity attracted by Delhi after the December 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape which was reported in great detail in foreign capitals and created an impression — possibly exaggerated — that the city was very unsafe for women.

Two other reasons are attributed to the fall — one, recession in the west and, two, under-reporting of ticket sales at ASI monuments as has been hinted by CAG.

However, there seems to be a general consensus that the Nirbhaya case has badly hit tourism to the city. While ASI is worried by the trend, as it has invested heavily on promoting Delhi's history, this is also a setback for the state government which is pitching for the national capital to be declared a Unesco world heritage next year — a tag which Delhi can justifiably aspire for, dotted as it is with historical monuments.


Foreign tourists in New Delhi.

ASI sources said there was a drop is in both Indian and foreign visitors, although the fall in the number of foreign visitors is more pronounced. ASI also garners much bigger revenue from foreign tourists. Tour operators said that there are hardly any single women tourists to India. "Most of them now come in groups," said an operator.

In 2010-11, Humayun's Tomb saw 6,38,714 visitors (Indian and foreign) which increased to 12, 25,484 visitors by 2012-13, an increase of over 100%. But then the figure dropped to 8,83,411 visitors in 2013-14, a drop of 29.3%. Similarly, Qutab Minar saw 30,91,609 visitors in 2011-12 which increased to 35, 56,162 visitors by 2012-13 which then dropped to 32,84,826 visitors in 2013-14.


Foreign tourists in New Delhi. 
The drop in visitors is not just at the world heritage sites. The trend was visible across all Delhi's ticketed monuments, including Jantar Mantar, Purana Qila and Safdarjung Tomb.

Senior ASI officials sought to emphasize recession as a key factor for the drop. "Recession has played a huge factor in reducing the number of foreign visitors to India. Even at the Taj Mahal in Agra, visitor intake has dropped by 11%. We are trying to understand why tourists were shying away all of a sudden," said a senior ASI official. But they conceded that the Nirbhaya case has also played a substantial role in reducing foreign tourist visits to the national capital.

"Women tourists preferred to skip Delhi after the incident. Then a number of tourists also planned visitors to elsewhere in India instead of Delhi," said an official.



Sources in ASI also pointed out that the number of visitors with free access to ticketed sites was also increasing. When questioned on the reduction in footfalls, ASI officials said: "As per the lIU report there is decrease in foreign visitors. May be due to recession or due to safety concern after Nirbhaya incident. It is also noticed a significant increase in permitting free entry of foreign and Indian delegates approached by different ministries as well as departments and organizations."

Experts say that reduction in footfalls could also be partially due to manipulation in the ticketing system, which is still done manually at all ticketed monuments. The CAG report 2013 pointed out that manual checking of tickets in centrally-protected monuments was prone to errors and manipulation. To overcome this, ASI has been proposing to start e-ticketing at all monuments, with first priority in world heritage sites. While ASI did a trial run for e-ticketing at Qutab Minar last October, it is yet to implement it any other protected monument.

Source:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Nirbhaya-effect-Delhi-sees-30-drop-in-foreign-tourists/articleshow/39834389.cms

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