The 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 (MHA) under the Nirbhaya Fund Scheme in 8 cities namely Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow and Mumbai.
The State Governments have entrusted the responsibility of Implementation of their projects to the Police department in consultation with the local bodies and State Line Departments.
The Safe City projects involve identification of hotspots for crime against women and deployment of various components including infrastructure, technology adoption and capacity building in community through awareness programmes.
The MHA has put in place a Safe City Implementation and Monitoring (SCIM) Portal to enable the State Implementing Agencies to upload the assets deployed under the project and other details relating to the progress of implementation.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.
