Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started a project to identify and illuminate some “dark spots” in the city to make it safer for residents, especially women.
The Civic body will dip into its part of the NIRBHAY fund for this purpose.
Funds, Corpus RS 100 Crore founded by the Government of UPA, is for women’s empowerment, safety and safety, to commemorate the victims of the 2012 Delhi Gangs.
Globally, law enforcement agencies have found an inverse correlation between the number of lighting and safety: the darker Stretch of road, the more probably prone to crime – attacks, cuts and sexual crimes against women.
Better lighting almost always causes a decrease in the crime rate.
While lighting in the city has increased, there are several black bags.
A few months ago, a lucky nurse escaped from harassment around 11pm, in a bad road stretch, close to Ballygunge Phari.
Three young men who were transmitted bicycles tried to reach it.
It was lucky that his screams told the police team.
KMC sources say the large area needed to light up a little.
“We received a poor lighting complaint, making some crime-vulnerable stretches,” said a lighting department official.
“We have a reason to worry about stretching Road Garcha, Bondel Road, Palm Avenue, Broad Street, Mayfair Road, Gurusaday Road and Ballygunge Circular Road.
We will overhaul the street lights there,” he added.
RS 1 Crore is subject to sanctions to increase street lighting several other areas that have been selected, regardless of those in Ballygunge, including regions near Lake Dhakuria, Burrabazar, Maidan, Behala-Kidderpore Belt, Jadavpur and several areas of Em Bypass.
“We are on the verge of completion identifying a bad zone,” said a senior lighting department official.
“After that, we will float tender.
We hope to start working three more months and wrap it before October,” he added.
“We have received Rs 1 Crore as a preliminary fund to improve road lighting systems in several city pockets.
This project will be completed in phase,” another official said.
In the Ballygunge place, the locals, Juthika Biswas said he was always afraid of his safety while walking at night.
Mayfair Road Resident Prabal Sengupta said women felt insecure after dark in the environment because of poor lighting.
In Gurusaday Road, the trees overgrown with branches bent cutting light in the section and leaving stretching badly lit.
In Behala too, there is a bag in the Parnasree and stretch the road in Boroughs XIII and XIV where the illumination leaves a lot to be desired.
Across from North Kolkata, part of KK Tagore Street has inadequate lighting.
According to the former Deputy Mayor of Meanadevi Purohit, the problem in the area has been emphasized after the collapse of Jalan Vivekananda.
There was also a complaint from Hariram Goenka Street in Burrabazar and Bidhan Sarani near Bethune College.
Likewise, Burrabazar, Strand Road and Chowringhee, will undergo an increase in lighting, an official said.