National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) has joined hands with Hyderabad city police for taking up a community closed circuit television (CCTV) project in some areas of old city.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed by the officials of NTPC and Hyderabad city police here on Friday. Regional Executive Director (South) of NTPC V.B. Fadnavis and Joint Commissioner of Police (Coordination) T. Amarender Reddy signed the agreement in the presence of Police Commissioner M. Mahender Reddy and Director (HR) NTPC U.P. Pani among others.
As part of the project taken up under NTPC’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) community development initiative, the ‘maharatna’ power utility would extend financial assistance of Rs. 1 crore for installation of CCTV cameras under the limits of Kamatipura police station in the old city. With the help of CCTV cameras, the city police would be able to take up round-the-clock surveillance to reduce the crime rate.
The NTPC is the first public sector undertaking to join hands with the city police in the community CCTV project taken up by the latter. The old city requires a budget of about Rs. 45 crore for coverage of the entire area under CCTV surveillance system in the limits of 30 police stations there.
The Police Commissioner requested all PSUs that have their presence in the city to join hands with the State government or the city police in the efforts to make Hyderabad a crime-free city by supporting the community CCTV surveillance project. The CCTV cameras would act as a force multiplier and help in checking crime and violation of traffic rules, he said.
The Hyderabad city police have already installed 58 CCTV surveillance cameras in Secunderabad railway station area and other important locations under Gopalapuram police limits. The high-definition surveillance cameras were already making a difference in policing. The NTPC has contributed Rs. 5 lakh out of Rs. 24 lakh expenditure incurred for installing the surveillance cameras there.
Senior police officers of the city police, Anjani Kumar, T. Murali Krishna and V. Satyanarayana, Assistant General Manager (HR) NTPC T. Pratap were present on the occasion.
