"We possibly cannot report all the incidents. They come to notice only when one of us ends up in the hospital battling for life," the 28-year-old resident of north campus added.
According to the report by the North East Support Centre and Helpline (NESCH), there are more than 200,000 people, of whom around 50 percent are females, from the the northeastern states of India in the capital.
M.P. Bezbaruah, chairperson of the Bezbaruah Committee formed by the government after Tania's attack to suggest remedial measures, told IANS that "only police action and reforms cannot lower crime against the people from the northeast".
He further attributed such incidents to "mindsets of the people and the ideology they adopt against a certain community".
"There is a need for the government to make policies that prevents the culprits from getting away after committing the crime, which does not happen in many of the cases.
"A wide range of policies need to be improved so that crimes against people from the northeast, and equally from against other states, should reduce," Bezbaruah told IANS.
A student from Assam, Cheeranjib Daulaguphu, mentioned a few areas across the city where he says such incidents are more "rampant"
"Places like Munirka, Kotla Mubarakpur and also Lajpat Nagar (all in south Delhi) are the hub of such attacks," the resident of Saket told IANS.
Alana Golmei, founder of the NESCH, said that earlier women were asked to be "careful", but now, she said "even men are not safe".
"It has now become a security issue. Our police needs to undertake genuine investigations as it is the police and the judicial system who can help avert such
incidents by playing an important role," Golmei told IANS.
However, unlike popular opinion, people of the Delhi are sympathetic to the cause.
"I would not call Delhi unsafe per say, but there are certain social elements which don't understand the confluence of cultures that takes place in a
metropolis," communication consultant Bhaskar Pant told IANS.
Suggesting measures, advocate Sandeep Mahapatra said that there is an "urgent need" to probe the situation and rectify it.
"Unfortunately, there is some (kind of) disconnect with northeastern people. There is an urgent need to rectify the situation. Media needs to report and follow up the cases, thus being an important medium to bring in some sensitisation," Mahapatra told IANS.
