This Report has been prepared as part of the Project being undertaken with NDMC to Enhance the Last Mile Connectivity along the metro stations within its jurisdiction. The safety audits were conducted by Smt. Saroj Sethi and Smt. Renu Wasandi, architects from NDMC, in collaboration with Jagori and the National Association of Blind.
AIIMS
SAFETY SCORE: 3.4/5
SafetiPin is a map-based mobile phone and online application, which works to make communities and cities safer by providing safety-related information collected by users and by trained auditors. At the core of the app is the Women’s Safety Audit. A Women’s Safety Audit (WSA) is a participatory tool for collecting and assessing information about perceptions of urban safety in public spaces. The audit is based on nine parameters – Lighting, Openness, Visibility, Crowd, Security, Walk path, Availability of Public Transport, Gender Diversity, and Feeling.
The audits were conducted along with Jagori and students from the National Association of Blind (N.A.B.). The assessment was done with the students from N.A.B. during the day, and with architects from NDMC post sunset till 9pm.
AIIMS metro station is located towards the south of the AIIMS flyover along the junction of two major roads namely Ring Road and Sri Aurobindo Marg. It caters to AIIMS Hospital and Medical Institute, and Safdarjung Hospital.
An area of approximately 500m radius around the metro station has been studied and 72 audit pins have been generated. The area outside the metro entry/exit and the Bus Stop were studied. The areas around Ring Road and Aurobindo Marg were studied in detail.