Identifying Mumbai's unsafe spots

A group of women, along with students, has started identifying spots/areas in the city that are unsafe for women.

They have selected five civic wards and they will 'map' the areas where crime against women mostly happen by organising a safety walk.

Five social organisations — Akshara Centre, Stri Mukti Sanghthana, Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Aandolan, Mahila Vikas Parishad, and Parivartan Sansthan — have joined hands with students of 12 colleges to document such spots over the next three months.
Areas which have witnessed maximum instances of teasing or groping or molestation in other forms will be mapped. These organisations have come up with a host of reasons behind such incidents — poorly-lit roads that are also deserted, lack of police patrolling vans as well as police chowkies.

"We will take the help of 200 students from 12 city colleges to identify unsafe spots for women in the city," a source said. The safety walk will be organised in the G/south (Prabhadevi), F/south (Parel), G/North (Dadar), H/East (Bandra), and M/East (Chembur) and F/south (Parel) wards.

"Once the mapping is done, we will share our findings with the police and the civic authorities," said a member of one of the organisations. These five organisations are being headed by the Akshara Centre, an NGO working for the development of women.
"We will talk with women who face problems daily in these areas. The action plan will be submitted to the authorities," Nandita Shah, co-director of Akshara Centre, said.
The centre has also made a documentary to highlight and sensitise people.