Delhi parents to watch government schools via CCTV Published duration 17 January 2018

image copyright Steffi Loos/Getty Images image caption Surveillance cameras will soon be placed in Delhi's school classrooms

Parents in India's capital will soon be able to watch their children in the classroom in real time, using a mobile phone app.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said CCTV will be installed in all government schools within three months.

He said he hoped the move would make schools "transparent and accountable".

The deadly attack happened at Ryan International School in Gurgaon, some 32km (20 miles) from Delhi.

Just days later, a five-year-old girl was raped at a school in the east of the capital.

While some parents welcomed the move, others called it "ridiculous" and a sign of "a surveillance society".