8 Out of 10 Women in India have Faced Harassment via Calls, SMS: Truecaller

Eight out of 10 women in India receive harassment and nuisance calls with Chennai, New Delhi and Pune emerging as the most-affected metros by sexual harassment calls/SMS against women, according to a report by Truecaller.

The third edition of 'Understanding the impact of harassment calls and SMS for women in India' found eight out of 10 women respondents in India saying they have faced phone harassment and nuisance calls through calls and SMS messages.

Also, one out of five women respondents said they had received sexual and inappropriate calls. The most-affected cities in India are Chennai, New Delhi, Pune and Kolkata.

Interestingly, India also had the highest rate of women taking action against harassment calls/SMS among the countries surveyed (Kenya, Columbia, Brazil and Egypt).

The report noted that women in India share their number as a common practice, especially when recharging their phone at a store, visiting restaurants, shopping, entering contests and filling in logbooks.

When it comes to taking action against phone harassment, 85 per cent said they blocked the number. While most women chose to ignore this, only 12 per cent reported the number to authorities, the report said.

"We see a worrying trend of an increase in sexual harassment for women through calls and SMS. Normalising harassment has a devastating effect on the victims. Our campaign is building a community of people who are on a mission to encourage women to #MakeTheCall and to take action against such harassment by reporting it to the relevant authorities," Truecaller Managing Director Sandeep Patil said.

Truecaller stands against women's harassment in any and all forms, he added.

The study - supported by Ipsos - covered India, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt and Kenya. The sample size varied from 1,000 to 3,343 women for each market among the age group 18-40.

Risers Accelerator to Provide Initial Funding of up to ₹2 Cr to Startups Working towards Women Safety

Rising untoward incidents against women across the country require collective efforts to ensure that women are safe in the country. The government is doing its parts and Risers Accelerator – a group of 35 successful entrepreneurs based out of Delhi are aggressively promoting start-ups with a vision to bring positive changes in society. In this realm, Risers Accelerator has called out to give initial funding of up to Rs 2 crore to startups who innovate in technology for women safety. The funding amount may increase considering the scale and scope of the product.

Rachit Chawla

Risers focused on the need to improve women’s safety. So, in case everything fails at the last moment, the technology on your phone or any other device would be able to help your family / friends / police to locate you or warn you for any potential threat. "Reading about gory offences against women has made us think for weeks. We wanted to play a role in ensuring that women safety should be the prime concern. In this age of technology and startups, we came up with the idea that if any startup comes up with a feasible idea in this regard, we will help them in growing their business," says Rachit Chawla, Director – Technology & Finance, Risers Accelerator.

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2017 released this year shows instances of reported rape surged from 34,651 in 2015 to 38,947 in 2016. Similar is the case with other crimes against women. "Startups are prospering in the country and many people look for ideas that have an impact on the country’s economy only. We wanted the people to think of startup ideas which not only take care of the commercial benefits but should also have a social impact," added Mr Chawla. 

They added that as accelerator they want the tech startups to come at the front and be the partners in the change the country requires the most.

Safety Tech Startup DROR Raises Funds from IP Ventures

Tech-based startup DROR has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from IP Ventures. Conceptualized in 2018, the technology-driven platform aims to ensure safety of citizens and tourists coming to India, especially women, children & senior citizens in urban areasby connecting citizens and building a trustworthy and reliable community. 

DROR is a movement for Safer India which was founded and conceptualized by (Dhiraj Nauhbar, Dheeraj Bansal, Vivek Nauhbar & Ashok Negi) in 2018. This thought dawned upon the team when they were based abroad and many stories about violence against women in India moved them from within. Every 3 minutes India faces a crime against female and children in India. They conducted their own primary research to find the right solution to the problem. Uniqueness & comprehensiveness of the solution is what sets them apart from other initiatives in the country so far.

The co-founders of DROR, Dhiraj Nauhbar and Dheeraj Bansal, were moved by stories about violence against women in India and believed that leveraging technology can change the safety market scenario. Dhiraj Nauhbar is a marketing &strategy expert who was recognized amongst the top 100 most influential marketing professionals in India by World Marketing Congress in 2015. He said, “Coming from e-commerce and digital background, I firmly believe community and technology have the power to solve this big problem of personal safety in India. Personal safety cannot be solved by providing need-based solution, it’s a habit which needs to be build using technology and engagement is the way forward.”Dheeraj Bansal, an IIT Bombay Alumnus and a recognized growth hacker claims that the App can disrupt and aggregate the safety market by enabling people to be able to see how far help is by pressing SOS. 

Safety tech is an evolving space with DROR affirming to provide a comprehensive solution to fill the gap in India. Its team of advisors includes experienced professionals from Defense forces Commander Rahul Bose & Commander Pallav Prakashex-Indian Navy, Dr. Madhumita Pandey Criminology and Victimology Academician, Vivek Nauhbar, ex-BCG, Ashok Negi brand & consumer strategy expert & Neelam Kumari social activist for women rights.

Gopi Latpate, an IP Ventures angel investor said, “This concept has a wide-spread impact on society in terms of how we seek help in case of a troubled situation. DROR addresses one of the core issues related to women’s safety with a sense of community; it differentiates itself beyond traditional alarms and alerts by creating a network of people that can help in distress. The adoption of this technology will definitely improve the situation around women’s safety.”

DROR has initially launched the product via the B2B space and has successfully helped 700+ families who are using the App since the pilot stage.With the newly raised funds, the startup is planning to strengthen its tech platform and invest in user acquisition. 

When asked about his experience with IP Ventures, Gopi Latpate said, “IPV is a novel business model that provides a great platform for angel investors who come from diverse backgrounds and ranks which helps a lot during the due diligence process. IPV is thorough in their evaluation of the startups and quick to respond to investor’s concerns or questions.”

IP Ventures was founded in 2017 by a group of accomplished CXOs who come with rich experience in the start-up ecosystem, either as co-founders themselves or by leading their organizations through various stages of funding. Their expertise lies not only in financial aspects such as private equity and venture capital but also in business strategy, expansion and risk mitigation.

Marconi Society's Celestini Program Recognizes Indian Students Tackling Women's Safety & Air Pollution

The Marconi Society, dedicated to celebrating, inspiring and connecting the innovators building tomorrow’s digitally inclusive world, has awarded top prizes to students in India who crafted innovative solutions that address the growing challenges of women's safety and air pollution.

A team from Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Delhi, has developed an Android application, Rakshak, that detects speech patterns via the audio microphone of the user’s smartphone. When the application detects audio snippets with speech commands requesting help or saying “stop” in distressed tones, it generates SOS alerts and the location of the user, and sends them to emergency contacts specified by the user. The app is now available on the Google Play store.

Rakshak Women's Safety App: The mobile phone app analyses speech patterns, detects panic and triggers an SOS message. (Simulated situation with actor)

The solution took the top prize today in a contest organized in India by the Marconi Society’s Celestini Program. The Program, run by the Society's Young Scholars, is a flagship effort to inspire and connect individuals building tomorrow’s technologies in service of a digitally inclusive world. The Marconi Society and its Young Scholars select universities with promising telecommunications and engineering undergrads and provide them with support and mentorship to help tap their students’ true potential.

“This is the third successful year of the Celestini Program in India,” said Vint Cerf, Chair of the Marconi Society. “We see a clear trend of Celestini Program participants choosing research careers and technology-oriented graduate programs, which helps us fulfill our mission of inspiring the bright minds that will bring the benefits of connectivity to the next billion.”

The winning team of Piyush Agrawal, Subham Banga, Aniket Sharma and Ujjwal Upadhyay tackled the troubling issue of women's safety in India, where incidents of women under attack have become all too common. They started with publicly available speech command datasets, such as the Google Speech command dataset, then added speech commands specific to the scenario of women’s safety. They crowd-sourced additional data and open-sourced it as the Indian EmoSpeech Command dataset. This enabled them to detect emotion, background noise, and Indian accents in the audio with improved precision. Video demo here.

The team winning the second prize --also from Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Delhi – addressed air quality since India has 14 of the 15 most polluted cities in the world according to the World Health Organization’s Global Ambient Air Quality Database. Team members Harshita Diddee, Shivam Grover, Shivani Jindal and Divyanshu Sharma created a privacy-aware smartphone application called VisionAir which uses photos of the horizon taken from a smartphone to estimate air quality. This builds on the work done by last year's Celestini Prize winners which showed that a machine learning model can be built to estimate air quality from an image by extracting image features such as transmission index or haziness and combining them with meteorological data and historical air quality data. The innovative aspect of this year’s application is to leverage federated learning to train the machine learning model in a privacy-aware manner instead of uploading photos from each user as shown in this tutorial. Federated learning only uploads the features extracted from the images without uploading the smartphone images to train the machine learning model.

The VisionAir team also enables other developers to create new machine learning models by open-sourcing a diverse set of smartphone images taken across several locations in Delhi, from different phones with ground truth air quality data from Central Pollution Control Board monitors and Airveda sensors.

Air Quality VisionAir App: Uses photos of horizon, combines with meteorological and ground truth measurements to estimate air quality

The winning team receives a cash prize of $1500 and the second-place team receives $500.The Celestini Program India partners with IIT Delhi and is anchored by Dr Aakanksha Chowdhery, a researcher in Google Brain, and a 2012 Marconi Young Scholar.

In addition to pursuing technical careers, Celestini Program India participants are building their careers by having their applications showcased in prominent forums such as the TensorFlow Developer Summit and Google I/O 2019.

“The Marconi Society’s Celestini Program is a unique and impactful way to help us create the next generation of technical innovators,” said Professor Brejesh Lall, Head of Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management and Celestini Program partner at IIT Delhi. “Students become deeply engaged when they are defining the important problems that technology can solve and creating proof-of-concept applications that will make a difference in the world. The Marconi Society’s investment in mentorship, support and technology makes a true difference to these students’ career paths.”

The winning teams showcased their innovation at a function in IIT Delhi, today, where Padmasree Warrior, IIT Delhi alumnus and former CTO of Motorola and Cisco Systems, gave the keynote speech.

Details of the Celestini Program can be found here.

The Marconi Society

Established in 1974 by the daughter of Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel Laureate who invented radio, the Marconi Society celebrates, inspires and connects the innovators building tomorrow’s technologies in service of a digitally inclusive world. The Marconi Society’s flagship programs include the Marconi Prize, the Paul Baran Young Scholar Awards and the Celestini Program. More information may be found at www.marconisociety.org.

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Stay Safe in Cabs - Gurgaon Startup Introduces An Online Course for Safety in Cabs

Cuttlfish, fitness and self-defence startup has started offering a unique scientifically designed online course to promote Safety in Cabs. The course uses practical insights, showcases, and several re-created scenarios to make it easy for people to stay safe with the right knowledge in cabs. However, increasing incidents of wrongdoings with both men and women, the need for the course was a must.

The course covers all aspects of staying safe in a Cab, starting from practices before entering a cab, to what to do during a ride and then practical examples of how to handle a driver that goes out of control. Cuttlfish asks users to view the course modules- which are created using simulated scenarios and let them answer the questions based on the knowledge they have gained through the videos.

Upon completion of all the answers to the required number of questions, one can also earn a course completion certificate. This knowledge will help men and women to stay safe while travelling in cabs. Apart from the precautions and basic safety principles. This course also provides self-defence for specific scenarios that are based on basic biomechanics. These can be applied by a weaker person against a strong person/ cab driver as well.

Mr Shikher Gupta, Founder, Cuttlfish said, "Cuttlfish has been offering self-defence and fitness workshops to various corporates and one thing which regularly comes out is the need to stay safe in cabs. Thus, we created this course after gathering a lot of inputs from travellers, victims, and even cab drivers to offer practical knowledge to help people stay safe during their cab rides."

[caption id="attachment_132017" align="alignleft" width="300"] Shikher Gupta[/caption]Travelling in cabs had not just become an easier mode of transport but something which is a mandate in today’s urban life, be it going for work or leisure. However, along with the high usage of cabs, the crime and incident of mishaps in the cabs were also rising. Cuttlfish had carefully studied and created a scientific course that is helping ones to easily understand the possible scenarios and what it takes to stay safe in a cab.

Mr Yashpal Singh Kalsi, Chief Trainer, Cuttlfish said, "This course covers the knowledge needed before entering a cab, during a ride and also explores what to do in the case a driver goes errand, the techniques shown are based on the principles of biomechanics and combines the gathered data points, which makes it simple so that even a weaker person can perform these against a stronger driver"

Cuttlfish is inspired by Cuttlefish an animal that is on top of self-defence and life hacking game in several ways. It's a master in how to be completely aware of surroundings, defend oneself and escape.

Today, Cuttlfish is helping corporates and individuals to not just stay fit with various scientifically designed fitness programs at the workplace but is also offering the right knowledge of self-defence. Cuttlfish derives its decades of knowledge in self-defence and martial arts from the lineage of Sanshinkan Martial Arts which is one of the world’s biggest names in martial arts. Cuttlfish offers fitness modules to corporates like Daily Ergonomic Sessions, Kickboxing, Pilates, Dance Fitness along with the right knowledge of self-defence in modules like staying safe in cabs, public transport, escaping an attack. Cuttlfish also offers customized wellness programs for corporations. Cuttlfish people have worked with over 100 corporates till now to make them fighting fit.

10 Best Mobile Apps For Women Safety In India

The safety of women has always been a critical issue in our country. And with the rise in the number of incidents that took place last year, this has become an, even more, serious issue which needs to be rectified as soon as possible. The situation has become so deplorable that India ranks amongst the top ten countries in the world that are considered unsafe or dangerous for women. You can find safety tips online for women who are looking to travel in India, a country where women are worshipped as Goddesses. We need to effectuate a change in the situation so that our own women do not feel unsafe. The situation has become so alarming that women today are always on the lookout, always on the defensive. We need to use all tools that are available at our disposal to make it a safe and secure environment for our women. These entrepreneurs feel the same way and have come up with apps that might help make a woman feel more at ease.

1. Go Suraksheit, Hughes Systique India Private Limited

   This is an application that gets you help in case of an emergency. It has 4 features that let your friends and family know that you are in danger. As soon as you press the help button, these four things will occur:
   • An SMS is sent to 10 contacts in your phone that you can program beforehand itself. The message contains you exact location on a map with a link to the same.
   • It updates your Facebook status with the same information.
   • It sends a call to a pre-provisioned emergency number.
   • A loud alarm starts playing on your phone to attract the attention of anyone in the vicinity.

2. Safetipin

   Safetipin is one of the good options when it comes to safety apps for women. The app is designed keeping in mind the concept of personal safety. It incorporates all the essential features such as GPS tracking, emergency contact numbers, directions to safe locations etc. The app also pins the safe areas along with their safety scores to go at the time of any problem. It also enables the users to pin unsafe areas and help others. Safetipin is available in Hindi, Bahasa and Spanish, besides English.

3. FightBack, Tech Mahindra

   This application was developed by CanvasM Technologies. It is a subsidiary of Tech Mahindra. Apart from the function of sending messages to contacts in a situation of imminent danger, it also warns the user about places on the Google map that might be unsafe, based on the past SOS alert data.

4. Ridesafe

   This one great app with a unique concept that can help women feel safer when they are travelling alone. It is very easy to use, just like the google maps. All you need to do it put in your destination and it also gives you the option of sharing your ride with any of your contacts so that they can track your position. Also, this app has a distinctive feature that detects route deviation. This is caught by their system and they inform your contacts and also contact the authorities and alert them of the situation. This is a must have app for all the women out there.

5. TellTail

   A creation of DIMTS (Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd.), the application allows the user to be tracked through the GPS on their phone or the vehicle. The user can send instant alerts to a chosen group of contacts as well. The app lets your location be known even if there is no GPS on your cell phone as location can be monitored using the vehicle’s GPS.

6. PanicGuard -

   This is one app that does the full emergency workup. It is active the entire duration of the emergency and sends out audio-visual alerts to the provided contacts and the police as well. You just need to turn on the app and shake your phone and the alerts will start going.

7. SafeTrac

   SafeTrac is a mobile app that sends a message and an email with the precise location of the user in danger to his/her pre-defined contacts. Moreover, it has another feature which provides alert or admonition to users if they are entering an unsafe area based on the reviews from other users.

8. One Touch SOS -

   It's function is similar to the other apps as it sends a message to the user's contacts if the user presses the button on his/her phone indicating they are in danger and need help. The difference here is that you can select only three contacts to which messages can be sent.

9. Nirbhaya: Be Fearless

   This app works on the same basic principle as the other apps with some additional features. It was developed by Pune-based SmartCloud Infotech. It sends messages with location updates to predefined SMS contact groups, Facebook wall and secured web portal. The user can either shake the phone or use a simple click to send alert messages to their predefined contacts.

10. SafeBridge -

    This is another personal safety app. It sends a message with the users' GPS location to a list of trusted contacts in case of an emergency. It also has an I am a safe button, that the users can use to tell their contacts if the danger has been averted. This app does not require the presence of internet to function at all.

Meet SafeMate, A GPS-Based Personal Safety Device By MapmyIndia

Safety is first on the priority list of many, whether men or women, while going out nowadays. Whether it's broad day light or the silent darkness at night, the alarming rate at which crimes like rape, assaults are increasing have turned the cities into fearful places where the best way to stay safe is lock yourself up in your houses and not venture out at all. While it seems like the most safe option but it is surely not a sane one for many of us who are either working or studying in order to earn our daily bread. Assuring the safety of these hard workers when they're away from their safety nests, their homes, is a safety device called SafeMate.

SafeMate is a dedicated personal safety device developed by Delhi-based MapmyIndia, a provider of digital maps, GPS navigation, and tracking. This personal safety device device can be purchased exclusively from Flipkart at Rs. 6,990.

The matchbox-sized SafeMate weighs just 50 grams in weight and can fit into a school bag, purse, or pocket very easily. The wonder safety device makes use of its built-in GPS and Internet connectivity to securely transmit live locations to a mobile phone and desktop. It also has an SOS button that can be pressed in case of an emergency. Pressing the SOS button will send email and SMS alerts to the emergency contacts designated by the person.

The SafeMate companion app is currently available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store, and also on the MapmyIndia website.

The thing that makes distinguishes SafeMate from the others in the market is that unlike other safety apps that make use of the mobile phone's GPS continuously, and tend to drain the phone's battery, SafeMate does not require a mobile phone, and has a battery life of three to four days.

On purchase, the device will come loaded with with Rs. 3,600 worth of SIM card connectivity charges and subscription fees. This service can then be subsequently renewed for Rs. 300 on a monthly basis, and has a separate SMS package for top ups, priced between a menial Rs. 250 to 500.

"The alarming increase in crime women and children in India spurred us into thinking about how we could use our sophisticated technology to provide safety to individuals. We wanted to keep things simple so that the technology can be used in the most stressful situation. The result is SafeMate," said Rashmi Verma, Director and Co-Founder, MapmyIndia, in a statement.

RideSafe - A Mobile App Which Can Sense Trouble Even Before You Can

Safety is the main concern nowadays. With the number of rape, murder and robbery cases increasing day by day, the number of people stepping out to enjoy at night or even in broad day light has decreased drastically.

The primary concern which we have while stepping out or even planning to step out is how would we commute.

In order to make travelling a part of the day that we would love rather than dread, a Bangalore based startup has come up with an app called RideSafetyApp that boosts itself as being the first REAL safety app for women in the world while commuting via road.

The app is a product of the wonderful minds of Geet Garg and Nishith Rastogi, who are IIT Kharagpur and BITS Pilani graduates respectively.

The app makes sure that whatever be the area or time of your commute, you're safe and sound and makes sure that your family knows the same.The app with its state-of-the-art RealTime Route Deviation Detection (R2D2) engine is extremely easy to install and use.

Though the taxi aggregators like (ola,uber,meru) have introduced the tracking feature, but the person tracking the ride will have to keep checking the link, every 5 minutes, But RideSafe would automatically inform the user and his contacts as soon as we notice deviation from the intended route! This can be extremely useful in places where the user is travelling for the first time.

A sample trip link, that is sent to user's selected contacts - http://goo.gl/MPMZKa

Once installed from the app store, the user is just required to enter his/her destination and the rest will be taken care by the app.The app will alarm the user if and when the driver deviates from the intended route.

If the driver deviates from the intended route, the app's algorithm will detect this in real-time and alert the user & user's family and friends. The app accounts for minor detours, shortcuts, traffic detours and several other edge cases.

Ridesafe stands out from a sea of other road safety apps available in the market for women. What makes it different is that fact that while in other applications the person tracking the ride is required to check the link in every five minutes, that is not the case with ridesafe. In ridesafe app, this function is done by the app itself.
As soon as it senses a deviation, the app will automatically buzz the user and his/her contacts.

Along with offering safety benefits, Ridesafe also provides its users with a host of other features.The application can be used to measure the total time taken to complete the journey, to calculate the average time and speed during the trip. It can also be used to sync up during meetings.

The app's user interface and UX are very simple and clean. The app can be downloaded free of cost and has the potential of putting all travelling worries of women to rest once and for all.

FrndiNeed Is An App For Taxi/Cab Passengers' Safety

The recent Uber-Delhi rape case has brought the issue of women safety back into the public domain. It has also made travelling in the night for women tougher and scarier. But, all is not lost yet; there is an app in town which is adamant to win back the lost trust and security of the daily commuters. The app is called FrndiNeed and it has repackaged itself after the recent Uber case. It is here to fix the damage done by Uber.

FrndiNeed is a socially enabled application, which makes use of the user’s geographic location and connects him/her with friends in the vicinity and then requests them for a lift. The app is a variant of all those hundreds of apps available in the market that poke friends for instant meet-ups. It also comes with an SOS(Save our Souls)tab for emergency.

The app is a multipurpose app that makes everyday travel safer, smoother and economically viable. The app allows to poke a friend and request him/her to accept a request for a weekend trip. It even allows the user to plan a carpool. This feature is currently not available in beta.

According to Kunal Kishore, the co-founder of the app, the application was initially meant to help friends within 2-5 km radius to catch up with each other. But, when they developed the app in August, the company thought of incorporating women’s security also.

More and more applications are coming in the market which are not just looking to help the women at the times of crisis but also preventing such crisis situations altogether.  An example of this is Socialcops, an app that collects data from authorities and civilians in order to find the fastest and safest routes for users. The app even tells the police the areas and routes which need urgent attention.

According to Jasmeen Patheja, founder of the Blank Noise Project, such apps should be part of a larger system connecting the woman with neighborhood, the police and family, and not something that creates panic. Jasmeen said this in a statement to Economic Times.

The police is also making changes to its app in order to connect women in trouble directly to the police. The ‘DCP SahAya’ app will now incorporate a facility that will alert the police control room or the local police station directly. The app was launched six months ago.

FrndiNeed Is An App For Taxi/Cab Passengers' Safety

The recent Uber-Delhi rape case has brought the issue of women safety back into the public domain. It has also made travelling in the night for women tougher and scarier. But, all is not lost yet; there is an app in town which is adamant to win back the lost trust and security of the daily commuters. The app is called FrndiNeed and it has repackaged itself after the recent Uber case. It is here to fix the damage done by Uber.

FrndiNeed is a socially enabled application, which makes use of the user’s geographic location and connects him/her with friends in the vicinity and then requests them for a lift. The app is a variant of all those hundreds of apps available in the market that poke friends for instant meet-ups. It also comes with an SOS(Save our Souls)tab for emergency.

The app is a multipurpose app that makes everyday travel safer, smoother and economically viable. The app allows to poke a friend and request him/her to accept a request for a weekend trip. It even allows the user to plan a carpool. This feature is currently not available in beta.

According to Kunal Kishore, the co-founder of the app, the application was initially meant to help friends within 2-5 km radius to catch up with each other. But, when they developed the app in August, the company thought of incorporating women’s security also.

More and more applications are coming in the market which are not just looking to help the women at the times of crisis but also preventing such crisis situations altogether.  An example of this is Socialcops, an app that collects data from authorities and civilians in order to find the fastest and safest routes for users. The app even tells the police the areas and routes which need urgent attention.

According to Jasmeen Patheja, founder of the Blank Noise Project, such apps should be part of a larger system connecting the woman with neighborhood, the police and family, and not something that creates panic. Jasmeen said this in a statement to Economic Times.

The police is also making changes to its app in order to connect women in trouble directly to the police. The ‘DCP SahAya’ app will now incorporate a facility that will alert the police control room or the local police station directly. The app was launched six months ago.

Safecity.in Mapping Unsafe areas for Women in India

Safecity.in is a new portal that provide information & aggregation platform to help identify hotspots in a city where women abuse,verbal comments, graphic behavior, menace or any type of sexual harassment has been reported. Any women can report any bad incidence happened to them to website which in turn identify locations where women have experienced or witnessed any type of sexual harassment. This platform only provides information based on voluntary unverified reports.

Any one can submit report of bad behaviours against women on portal in any cities of India by searching the city from search box and share the incident by writing details of it. One can submit report as news, pictures or even videos.

One can also submit report via mobile android app - SafeTrac and also via tweet over twitter using hashtags #pinthecreep or #safecity and help the portal to map unsafe areas over a map and aggregate all the reports.

As per the number of incidence reported in the portal, region in and around New Delhi lead all other Indian region with 789 indecent behaviour against women till date followed by Hyderabad region,

One of the best feature of portal is user can get alerts as emails of any kind of sexual harassment in 1-100 KM of his/her living area.

One of a anonymous user reports incident of Chandni Chowk, New Delhi location she wrote - "While walking down the streets of chandni chowk during afternoon , two men bumped into me and pinched my breasts and then making weird facial expressions."

The portal has different wherein you can submit reports and get alerts such as - catcalls/Whistles, chain snatching, commenting, indecent exposure, sexual invites, rape/sexual assault, touching or groping etc.

Although internet penetration in India is only 12% something and women of rural areas where Internet is still a luxury kind of thing and SafeCity.in might not get report submission from rural areas and may not even managed to map unsafe areas in rural regions. Nevertheless, this good effort made by the portal might alert the urban women population on unsafe areas around them.