With a view to further strengthen the safety mechanism for women, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner Mr.CV Anand chaired an inter-departmental meeting on Thursday to discuss several execution & administrative aspects of the Safe City Project – which was launched in various metros of the country including Hyderabad.
The Safe City Project ,an initiative of MHA under the Nirbhaya Funds scheme , aims to create a safe, secure and empowering environment for women to enable them to pursue all opportunities without the threat of gender-based violence and/or harassment. It also aims to prevent and curb all forms of crimes against women and girl children in public places by providing safer urban infrastructure and efficient access to law enforcement agencies.
CP Anand observed that role of safe city project is pivotal in securing cities and added that this project should be moved further in an organized manner by working as a team. It has been decided to expedite the process of hiring program managers for Hyderabad, Rachakonda and Cyberabad Commissionerates and all other aspects of implementation of the project.
Instructions were given to TSTS, GHMC and other stakeholders of the project to speed up the installation of mobile toilets, PELICAN signals, pressing AV& surveillance vans to service and to expedite land acquisition process for launch of CDEWs(Center for Development and Empowerment of women) etc., Budget issues, CCTVs procurement & installation, other administrative issues were discussed in length.
Smt.SwathiLakra IPS, ADG(women safety); Shri M.Mahesh Bhagawat IPS, CP Rachakonda; Sri.DS Chauahan IPS Addl.CP. L&O, Shri Stephen Ravindra IPS, CP Cyberabad;Smt. Priyanka.,IAS, Additional Commissioner GHMC; Smt. PushpaRatod, General manager TSTS; Sri.M.Ramesh IPS Jt.CP Admn, Shri AR Srinivas IPS, Addl.CP Crimes & SIT; Shri AV Ranganath IPS, Jt.CP Traffic, Sri.Gajarao Bhupal IPS Jt.CP CCS and other senior officers attended the meeting.
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