Aligarh college installs CCTV cameras in men’s toilet | Photo Credit: ANI

Aligarh: Students of Dharam Samaj Degree College in Aligarh are upset with the college authorities' decision of installing Closed-Circuit TV (CCTV) cameras in the men's toilet. While the students have called the move as the invasion of their privacy, the college administration, on the other hand, maintain that the cameras have been placed to keep a check on the incidents of using washrooms for cheating in the examinations.

He also claimed that this does not invade privacy and that "there is no need to protest." The principal of the college Dr Hem Prakash told news agency ANI, "CCTVs have been installed to reduce cheating. Students used to hide chits in their clothes."

Stringent measures to avert students from engaging in unfair means during examinations have even crept up during the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET-UG.

CCTV cameras installed in men’s toilets of Dharam Samaj Degree College in #Aligarh; principal Dr Hem Prakash says, 'CCTVs have been installed to reduce cheating. Students used to hide chits in their clothes. Their is no invasion in privacy & no need to protest' pic.twitter.com/HawqMXNz69 — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) May 21, 2018

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A similar incident last year led to widespread hue and cry after the Bangalore police issued a notice asking all of the schools in the city to install CCTV cameras in their bathrooms. The notice was issued in the wake of the rape of an eight-year-old girl inside the bathroom of a prominent private school in the city. As many as 15 schools had come out opposing the order citing privacy concerns that were echoed by parents, faculties and students alike.

A school principal had even told Bangalore Mirror at the time, “Just because the police want to play safe, they tell us to do a hundred things. They have asked us to put cameras in toilets. How can we do that? If I have to implement something at school, I have to send out a circular to the parents first. Then, only after hearing them out can we go ahead. If I send out a curricular like this, I will have to go to jail or parents will come and hit me.”

(With inputs from ANI)

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