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- Government has announced the Safe City project.The project aims to strengthen safety and security of women in public places.
- The project has been approved under the Nirbhaya Fund Scheme.Further,it would be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with Centre and State sharing the funding in 60:40 ratio.
- The project will be implemented in eight selected metropolitan cities namely Delhi,Kolkata,Mumbai,Chennai,Bangalore,Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.
- The major components of the Safe City project include (a)Setting up an Integrated Smart Control Room and Pink Out-posts for facilitating ease of filing complaints by women (b)Setting up Women Help Desks in all Police Stations with Counsellors (c)Implementing Safety measures in buses including Cameras (d)Improving Street Lighting in identified Hot spot areas and (e)Integration of Women power-help line with a single Emergency number.



