Thursday, 7 February 2019

Safe City project

Context: Empowered Committee of Officers for Nirbhaya funds scheme has approved pilot Safe City projects in eight selected metropolitan cities, namely, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Lucknow with a view to provide safety to women in public places.
The project would be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with Centre and State sharing the funding in 60:40 ratio.
The major components of the Safe City project include, inter-alia:
  1. Setting up an Integrated Smart Control Room;
  2. Setting up Pink Out-posts (exclusively administered by Women police) for facilitating ease of filing complaint by women;
  3. Pink Patrols of Women police;
  4. Setting up Women Help Desks in all Police Stations with Counsellors;
  5. Augmentation of existing Asha Jyoti Kendra;
  6. Implementing Safety measures in buses, including Cameras;
  7. Improving Street Lighting in identified Hot Spot areas;
  8. Setting up Pink Toilets;
  9. Integration of Women power-help line with single Emergency number.

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