Lok Kalyan
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 by an architect from NDMC along with Safetipin team. The assessment
was done post sunset till 9 pm.
Lok Kalyan (previously known as Race Course) is an underground metro station on Delhi Metro’s yellow line. Located in Lutyens Delhi.
it is surrounded by residences of the country’s senior administration officials. An area of approximately 500m radius around the metro station has been studied and 119 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. When compared to main roads, audit points within the neighborhood have been rated lower in terms of safety score. Due to the absence of paratransit facility at the neighborhood level, Public Transport has been rated Average. Due to regular patrolling, Security is rated Average as well.
The parameter of Lighting and Walkpath has been rated Good. With high boundary walls and few street vendors, Visibility has been rated Poor. The parameter of People and Gender Usage is rated Below Average and Poor respectively. Overall, auditors have rated the Feeling in this area as Average.