Mandi House
SAFETY SCORE: 3.7/5
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
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.
Mandi House is an underground metro station that provides a same-level interchange between the two lines of Delhi Metro namely Blue line and Violet line. This area serves as the cultural hub of Delhi as it is home to the country’s finest cultural institutions like National School of Drama, Sangeet Natak Academy, Sahitya Academy among others.
An area of approximately 500m radius around the metro station has been studied and 40 audit pins have been generated. The area outside the metro entry/exit and the bus stop were studied.
Safety Audits indicate that the area around the metro station is safe. The safety score is rated lower at a few spots near the flyover on Sikandar Road. Walkpath parameter has been rated the highest i.e. Good. The parameter of Lighting and Public Transport has been rated Above Average.
Visibility has been rated Below Average due to high boundary walls of buildings. The parameters of Security, People, and Gender Usage have been rated Below Average. Overall, auditors have rated the Feeling in this area as Average.