Pune police unveil year-long road map for campus discipline and safety

• Following this, in January and February 2026, a Road Safety Week will be observed. This will be conducted in collaboration with the traffic police and 100+ street plays will be performed throughout the city.
• In March and April, a Gender Safety and Sensitisation programme will be conducted in collaboration with the Women’s Safety Cell. Safety circles and workshops will be a part of this programme.
• In June and July, a Say No To Drugs programme will be conducted in collaboration with the Anti-Narcotics Cell. The programme will include a city-level contest.
• In August and September, a Mental Health Month will be observed in coordination with mental health experts. The programme will include peer listening corners.
• In October, a Cyber Safety Activities programme will be conducted in collaboration with the cyber cell of the police. This programme will include campus cyber audits.
• November will include evaluation and awards for the complete programme while December will include expansion and mentoring. A new cohort plan will also be prepared in December.

In his speech at the event, Kumar highlighted that multiple cases of student indiscipline in Pune had brought disrepute to the city. These included the Pune Porsche case, college fresher’s party incidents, Kharadi drug party, Moze Engineering College paper leak, etc. He said, “These are various instances, which over the last one, one-and-a-half years, which I thought probably would give an idea of where do we stand, and whether we justify the tag of Oxford of the East for Pune. And what we need to do to try and address these issues, so that we are able to probably reinvent the Oxford of the East and try and see that the aberrations, the issues, which have probably caused a lot of dismay among the general people of Pune needs to be addressed.”

Talking about the role of parents in the Porsche case, Kumar said, “The parents supported this child by swapping his blood sample. What ethics and morality, what standing would that parent or guardian have in days to come to try and tell the boy that what he is doing is right or what he is doing is wrong. There, the role of the parents and guardians is very important.

And one of the major learnings from the Pune Porsche case is that the time when the parent and the guardian and the ecosystem around him should have tried to discipline him, they supported him for his misdeeds, due to which everyone is probably bearing the brunt.”

The Porsche case refers to a drunk driving accident in May 2024 wherein an unregistered Porsche driven by a minor son of a famous city-based builder under the influence of alcohol crashed into and killed two persons in Kalyani Nagar.

Teacher and student representatives of various educational institutes like Savitribai Phule Pune University, Fergusson College, Symbiosis International University, MIT-WPU, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Annasaheb Magar College, Jadhavar College and SNDT College were also present at the event.