Hyderabad: Private cabs are still unsafe for women working in the Cyberabad limits. Even after several crimes against women being reported, proposals to take adequate measures for women’s safety are progressing at a snail’s pace.
It has been more than a year that the Cyberabad police devised strategies for policing, which included registration of cabs and autorickshaws, apart from installing CCTV cameras.
Out of 13,000 registered cabs, which ply along the IT corridor, only 5,000 have put QR (quick response) code stickers which the police has issued.
More cabs are yet to get registered with the Cyberabad police. Not a single autorickshaw has been registered with the cops.
Meanwhile, officials say software companies need to take the initiative to ensure that every cab entering their premises should have a QR coded sticker along with the details of driver and owner.
“We have started checking if cabs are registered with the police. They are fined if they do not have QR code stickers on the vehicles,” said DCP Avinash Mohanty.
He added, “We have asked the RTC for more public transport facilities in the IT corridor during peak hours, especially from MMTS stations to IT companies where women opt for autorickshaws and private cabs since they do not have the choice of public transport.”
Meanwhile, installing CCTV cameras with night vision in and around the IT corridor has been pending since a year.
Initially the responsibility of project monitoring unit was given to the Administrative Staff College of India, which was later transferred to the Centre for Good Governance.
The proposed project is still under field study. Out of 2,600 CCTV cameras that were proposed in Cyberabad, only 47 have been installed in the IT corridor.
Apart from these pending proposals, new recommendations by the women safety committee, appointed by the Telangana State government, are also to be put in place.
