Safe City Project [UPSC Notes]

Recently, the Union Home Minister lauded the ‘Safe City Project’ as an advanced security system in preventing and investigating crimes. What is Safe City Project? How will it improve women’s safety in public places? Read on to know more about Safe City Project, an important topic for the IAS exam.

Safe City Project:

• It aims to create a safe, secure and empowering environment for women in public places. 
• It is a cutting-edge security system meant for preventing and investigating crimes. 
• It will further maintain surveillance at crucial public installations.
• Launched in Bengaluru city.
• The project aspires to make the country’s police system the best in the world.

How will it help?

• It will enable citizens and especially women to pursue all opportunities without the threat of gender-based violence and/or harassment.
• It will make the police capable of meeting modern-day security challenges.
• It will also make the personnel and system adapt to technology to better manage evading detection of criminals.
• Similarly, the Centre for Internet Security had come up in Bengaluru in 2017 for dealing with the evolving security challenges.

The coverage:

• Currently it is being implemented on a trial basis.
• The Empowered Committee under Nirbhaya Fund approved Safe City projects in the following 8 selected cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.
• More than 4,100 security cameras and 8 camera mounted drones have also been procured.
• A mere push on the panic  button by anyone will connect them to control rooms at part of 30 security islands.
• The PCR van will reach the spot and the distressed person will get resolution in minutes.

Way forward: Evolving security challenges such as in the cyber and internet domains need the up to date personnel and cutting edge technological solutions. The Safe city project will prove to be a milestone in tackling security challenges, if implemented in true sense. Moreover, generating public awareness will be crucial to get the maximum benefit out of any such endeavors.

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