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Government of India
Ministry of Home Affairs
24 MAR 2021 7:05PM by PIB Delhi
Safe City Project

 ‘Police’ and ‘Public order’ are State subjects under the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India. The responsibilities to maintain law and order, protection of life and property of the citizens including crime against women are with the respective State Governments. However, as part of several initiatives for safety of women by the Government, Safe City Projects have been sanctioned by the Ministry of Home Affairs under the Nirbhaya Fund scheme in 8 cities (Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow & Mumbai). These projects involve identification of hot spots for crimes against women and deployment of various components including infrastructure, technology adoption, and capacity building in community through awareness programmes. The project implementation is regularly reviewed by the State Level Apex Committee. Specific details are not maintained in the Ministry. However, details of funds released to States/UT by the Ministry, year-wise, for implementation of the projects are given below:

 

City

Funds released (In Rs. crore)

2018-19

 2019-20

2020-21

Mumbai

   87.47

   56.17

Nil

Kolkata

   47.57

     8.00

Nil

Chennai

169.37

   71.41

Nil

Hyderabad

 83.14

  39.94

Nil

Ahmedabad

 51.55

  42.87

37.64

Lucknow

 62.89

    Nil

26.54

Delhi

 64.67

 268.60

Nil

Bengaluru

167.26

   Nil

Nil

 

The criteria for selection of next batch of cities have not been decided. Further, new projects would be dependent on demand assessment and project feasibility.

 

Safe City project guidelines provides the States/UT to converge with other ongoing projects/schemes, including Smart City Project.

 

This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri G. Kishan Reddy in a written reply to question in the Rajya Sabha today.

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