Safe City Project to ensure safety of women, says CM

Tribune News Service

Shimla, January 19

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said today that the Safe City Project, proposed to be executed in Mandi under the Nirbhaya Fund, would not only ensure the safety of women in public places, but also provide a smart solution to better traffic management and crowd control. A presentation was made before the Chief Minister by BSNL officers.

He said the Centre had provided funds in 90:10 ratio to Himachal Pradesh under the project. “It envisages design, development, implementation, operation and the CCTV-based surveillance system for Mandi. The latest technology such as IP-based camera infrastructure, unhindered viewing, monitoring record and storage of data will be done,” he said.

The system would help in providing assistance to women, girls and senior citizens during emergency, besides facilitating the smooth movement of ambulances, police vans and fire engines. “This will also help the police in checking crime against women, maintaining law and order and improving traffic management,” he said.

Thakur said the provision would also be made to provide cameras on police mobile vans to cover the disaster-affected areas and crime scenes. These cameras would be integrated with the system, which would directly feed information of the crime scene to the command and control centre.