98 ... ... ... ... .. RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN C] Harassment of Women Passengers in Trains 7.38 The issue of harassment of women passengers in trains has been a subject of continuing concern to the Commission. In its preceding annual report, the Commission provided details of certain recommendations that it made to the Railway Board with a view to checking, from time to time, whether adequate action was being taken on those recommendations. 7.39 In response to the recommendations of the Commission, the Railway Board authorities informed to the Commission in August 2002 that the following measures had been taken by them: ● Instructions had been issued to the Zonal Railways for making the FIR forms available in the relevant languages on all routes of the trains. ● An informal discussion was held by the Railway Board with the representatives of Jagori, an NGO based in Delhi, so as to prepare and present some graphics to be displayed in the coaches. ● The Railway Board had also consulted Jagori to assist them in the designing of publicity material relating to the prevention of sexual harassment in trains. Once this was handed over by Jagori, the publicity exercise would be initiated by the Railway Board. ● Instructions had been issued to the Zonal Railways for tackling the nuisance in an effective manner on the trains and routes/sections from which the maximum number of complaints were reported. Instructions had also been given to the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel to play a proactive role. ● A discussion had been held with the representatives of Jagori at which they were requested to prepare a two-day module for the Probationers of the Traffic and Security Department. ● The Ministry of Home Affairs had also advised the State Governments/ Union Territory Administrations to take necessary action on the recommendations made by the Commission to constitute State Level Coordination Committees, with representatives from the Railway Protection Force (RPF)/the Government Railway Police (GRP) and the Zonal Railway Administration of their own area as members, to periodically review the progress of implementation of the measures taken for the safety of women passengers. N AT I O N A L H U M A N R I G H T S C O M M I S S I O N