Bangaluru gets Rs. 677 crore for women's safety

By Manoj Sharma

Surveillance, women’s assist desks, response teams, integrated beef up machine at the playing cards as Centre sanctions a big bite for town

Just days after India used to be ranked essentially the most bad nation for girls in a survey performed via an organisation, Bengaluru is ge aring up to ensure town is protected for all.

The Centre has given its approval to an offer that the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had despatched to it. Under the ‘Safe City’ mission, the Centre will provide Rs 667 crore for town (this is the absolute best quantity sanctioned amongst eight Indian towns which are implementing the mission). The BBMP in affiliation with the Bangalore City Police had despatched the proposal in the hunt for budget from the government in December 2017. The mission shall be applied for three years.

With this quantity, Bengaluru town wants to determine services for girls equivalent to surveillance at public places, placement of NGO volunteers at women’s assist desk in police stations and critical care response teams at main hospitals, putting in place of an integrated beef up centre for girls and kids in need, GIS-based crime mapping and analytics, women police outpost near schools, school, bus stands and the introduction of 50 protection islands at inclined places.

The allocations have been approved via the Centre in March and the Centre has asked the states to put in force the mission in the 2018-19 monetary yr. “Our proposal has been approved and we now have 3 years’ time to put in force the mission. We will begin implementation in November this yr and can put it in position in 3 years. This mission shall be applied with the cooperation of City Police. The ‘Safe City’ mission shall be funded on a 60:40 basis from the Centre and state,” mentioned N Manjunatha Prasad, Commissioner of BBMP.