Detailed
framework for operationalision of scheme under “Nirbhaya Fund” for Security
for women and girl child in public road transport in the country is under
process.
The proposal was approved by the Union Cabinet in January 2014. The
proposal include setting up of a unified system at the National Level (National
Vehicle Security and Tracking System) and State level (City Command and
Control Centre) for GPS tracking of the location
of, emergency buttons in and
video recording of incidents in public transport vehicles. In the first phase,
32 cities of 13 States in the country with a population of 1 million or more
will be covered. Total estimated cost of the project is Rs. 1404.68 crore which
will be funded by Ministry of Finance from “Nirbhaya Fund”. The project
is to be implemented within a period of two years. Once the scheme is made
operational in major million plus cities, ensuring safe, reliable and
comfortable public passenger bus service across the country will be made
possible.
The
major impact of the scheme will include maping of routes of the public
vehicles; tracking of vehicles on the route; highlighting of violations through
visual and text signals; panic button alert to transport and police through
visual, text and voice; permit, registration and license cancellation based
criteria for enforcement and providing safety and security to women and girl
child in distress in minimum response time. Video recording in Public Transport
vehicles with large seating capacity will be used as evidence. This will act a
preventive measure for probable offenders.
