Khan Market
SAFETY SCORE: 3.8/5
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 by an architect from NDMC along with Safetipin team. The assessment was done post sunset till 9 pm. Khan Market is an underground metro station on Delhi Metro’s Violet line. The metro station is situated near one of the costliest and busiest retail markets i.e. Khan Market. It is surrounded by hotels and residences.
An area of approximately 500m radius around the metro station has been studied and 164 audit pins have been generated. The area outside the metro entry/exit and the bus stop were studied.
Public Transport in this area has been rated Average. The parameter of the People and Gender have been rated Below Average and Poor respectively. The parameter of Lighting and Walkpath has been rated Good. Overall, auditors have rated the Feeling in this area as Average.