--- title: India: Buses to Have Panic Buttons to Curb Sex Attacks description: The measure comes more than three years after the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus sparked national outrage canonical: https://time.com/4348795/india-buses-panic-buttons-delhi-gangrape/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-26T04:33:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:50:52.878Z article:section: World og:title: India's Public Buses Will Now Be Fitted With Panic Buttons og:description: The measure comes more three years after a brutal gang rape on a New Delhi bus og:url: https://time.com/4348795/india-buses-panic-buttons-delhi-gangrape/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt623d7bbf9c2f3c57/698895165f570f4520b21184/gettyimages-495539607.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Chaotic bus traffic at Kempegowda Bus Station, more commonly og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: India's Public Buses Will Now Be Fitted With Panic Buttons twitter:description: The measure comes more three years after a brutal gang rape on a New Delhi bus twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt623d7bbf9c2f3c57/698895165f570f4520b21184/gettyimages-495539607.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # India's Public Buses Will Now Be Fitted With Panic Buttons to Stop Sex Attacks > Sponsored content. 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[Become a member](/c/pmi-2026-q3/membership?i=b2897b1a-cd7b-4430-b2e4-d2680abad158&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1). by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar May 26, 2016 4:33 AM CUT  Chaotic bus traffic at Kempegowda Bus Station, more commonly known as Majestic Bus Station, in Bangalore, India, on March 11, 2014 Chaotic bus traffic at Kempegowda Bus Station, more commonly known as Majestic Bus Station, in Bangalore, India, on March 11, 2014Frank Bienewald—LightRocket/Getty Images by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar May 26, 2016 4:33 AM CUT More than three years after the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi made global headlines and sparked mass outrage, the Indian government has announced a new measure to increase safety for women — [panic buttons](https://www.yahoo.com/news/india-panic-buttons-must-public-buses-152625753.html "undefined") aboard public buses. The proposal was announced Wednesday by the country’s Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Agence France-Presse reported. Gadkari said the panic buttons are among several new safety initiatives that will go into force on June 2 on buses across the country. He added that GPS trackers and CCTV cameras will also be installed, in order “to ensure the safety of women after the unfortunate incident” — a reference to the brutal [December 2012 gang rape](http://world.time.com/2012/12/19/brutal-delhi-gangrape-outrages-indians-spurs-calls-for-action/ "undefined"). The buttons, which will be installed on all new buses and retroactively fitted on old ones, will be located above the front door and send a distress signal to a police control room when pressed. The police will then be able to view real-time footage of the bus interior. The rollout of the new measures has already begun, with 20 buses in the northwestern state of Rajasthan the first to be fitted. \[[_AFP_](https://www.yahoo.com/news/india-panic-buttons-must-public-buses-152625753.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4348795/india-buses-panic-buttons-delhi-gangrape/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4348795/india-buses-panic-buttons-delhi-gangrape/"},"headline":"India's Public Buses Will Now Be Fitted With Panic Buttons to Stop Sex Attacks","datePublished":"2016-05-26T04:33:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:50:52.878Z","description":"GPS trackers and CCTV cameras will also be installed, the Transport Minister says","url":"https://time.com/4348795/india-buses-panic-buttons-delhi-gangrape/","keywords":["Rape","India","New Delhi","safety","2012"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt623d7bbf9c2f3c57/698895165f570f4520b21184/gettyimages-495539607.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt623d7bbf9c2f3c57/698895165f570f4520b21184/gettyimages-495539607.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Chaotic bus traffic at Kempegowda Bus Station, more commonly","caption":"Chaotic bus traffic at Kempegowda Bus Station, more commonly","creditText":"Frank Bienewald—LightRocket/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4348795/india-buses-panic-buttons-delhi-gangrape/","name":"India's Public Buses Will Now Be Fitted With Panic Buttons to Stop Sex Attacks"}}]}] ```