The Maharashtra Government on Saturday signed a deal worth Rs. 949 crore with Larsen & Turbo to cover the entire Mumbai city under the CCTV surveillance.
As per the project, 6000 CCTVs will be installed across the city and suburbs by September 2016.
The project was first proposed after the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai by the then State Government. However, the project did not move ahead despite calling for tenders four times as the tenders did not receive response from the companies.
The new Bharatiya Janata Party – led Government had formed a high power committee to push the project and the contract for the same was signed on the occasion of completion of 100 days of the state government on Saturday.
“Installed CCTVs will guarantee safer city to its citizens. It will not support the Mumbai police to maintain law and order but it will also help in improving traffic management,” said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis after the contract was signed between the government authorities and company representatives.
The project will be carried out in three phases. Installation of CCTVs in South Mumbai is expected to completed by November 2015, while North and East Mumbai will get CCTVs by April 2016. Final and third phase in which Central and West Mumbai will be equipped with CCTVs is likely to be completed by September 2016.
City’s coastal line will have 20 thermal cameras to record any possible movement in the sea. Two command centres for the project will be set at the Mumbai commissioner’s office and at Kalina in suburban Mumbai. Traffic police headquarter will also have a centre for traffic management. Viewing of feeds is possible at all police stations in the city as well as at the DCP offices and Regional Additional CP offices.
