Highways in Haryana to have 100,000 CCTV cameras, work starts this year

Surveillance system will monitor traffic in some of busiest national highways passing through state

The Haryana government will install 100,000 CCTV cameras along national highways in the state, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said here on Saturday.

The closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras will be installed along the national highways soon, Khattar said, while interacting with media persons after inaugurating and laying foundation stones of development works worth Rs 107 crore for Sirsa and Fatehabad districts.

Work on installation of the CCTV cameras will begin this year, officials said.

Some of the busiest national highways, like NH-1 (Delhi-Ambala), NH-8 (Delhi-Jaipur), NH-2 (Delhi-Agra), NH-10 (Delhi-Hisar), and others pass through Haryana.

The state surrounds national capital Delhi from three sides and all highways, linking north Indian states Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, pass through it.

The state atttracts a liot of heavy traffic of trucks with industrial hubs like Gurugram, Manesar, Bawal, Daruhera, Kundli, Panipat, Rohtak and others being located in the national capital region (NCR).