Mumbai: A project to install over 6000 CCTV cameras in Mumbai at a cost of Rs 949 crore to beef up surveillance in crucial places of the city will be completed by September next year, a Maharashtra Home department official has said.
The project was first proposed during the earlier Congress-NCP government after the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai and has been delayed since then. It could not move ahead despite bids being invited four times.
The BJP-led government, after coming to power last year, formed a high-power committee to push the project and contract for the same was signed in February this year.
The city has been divided into two zones for the completion of the project wherein around 1,400 CCTV cameras in the south zone (comprising areas in Central and South Mumbai) will be installed by November this year, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) K P Bakshi said.
After the monsoon season ends this year, the Home department will seek permissions for digging to set up poles for installation of CCTV in other parts of the city. The department plans to complete the installation of 6,020 CTTVs by September 2016, Bakshi said.
The cameras will have a capacity to store videos for 7 to 21 days depending on the vulnerability of the place, he said. The cameras installed at places that are more prone to accidents or criminal incidents (chain-snatching, etc) will have more storage capacity than those at other locations, he said.
The viewing centres will be at all police stations (where each station can monitor its area), state secretariat (Mantralaya), Mumbai Port Trust, and the MCGM, he said. There will be three command centres, one each at Mumbai Police Commissioner’s Office, Kalina (Disaster Recovery Command Centre) and the Traffic police headquarters at Worli, Bakshi said.
Bureau Report
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