The Punjab Safe City Authority has started setting up “pink safety buttons” in educational institutions to improve safety and privacy for female students.
In the first stage, 450 colleges across Punjab are being equipped with the emergency devices. According to officials, Lahore tops the list with 39 installations, followed by 35 in Rawalpindi, 31 in Faisalabad, 24 in Gujranwala, 22 in Sialkot, 19 in Sargodha, and 15 in Multan.
Other districts, including Gujrat, Chakwal, Mandi Bahauddin, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Sheikhupura, Jhang, and Muzaffargarh, are also included, with six to 15 devices each. Once the college phase is complete, the initiative will be extended to high schools.
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The authority has already placed pink safety buttons at 202 public sites across 13 districts. Lahore alone accounts for 122 of these, while Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Okara, Sahiwal, Jhang, Gujrat, Attock, Murree, Muzaffargarh, DG Khan, Mianwali, and Jhelum have also been covered.
These buttons allow women to connect directly to the police emergency helpline, even if they do not have access to a mobile phone.
