47 traffic points in Vizag to get CCTV cameras

As many as 47 traffic signal points in the city will be upgraded with CCTV cameras within next two weeks, Commissioner of Police Amit Garg said.
Inaugurating the Airlova Traffic Police Station at Hanumanthawaka Junction area here yesterday, the city police chief said as a part of smart policing and security action plan of Vizag, 128 surveillance cameras have been installed at 47 junctions.
The installation has been done by Hyderabad-based private firm Stan Power on BOT basis and would set up another 130 CCTV cameras in the next phase at the 47 junctions to bring the city under the surveillance radar.

Though the CCTV project was taken up in March, 2013, and was supposed to be complete by December in that year, it got delayed due to lack of co-ordination between the civic body GVMC and the firm.
The destruction casued by cyclone Hudhud in October 2014, had also obstructed the work.
Garg said that the camera network will comprise both fixed and PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras, and beside monitoring traffic, cameras will also supplement the surveillance network of the police.

Currently, the police is monitoring traffic at few junctions in the city through the command control centre.
A video wall with 130 monitors displaying the CCTV footage at various places in the city will be set up in the few weeks at the new police commissionerate building, he said.

Speaking on the traffic management plan in AP's biggest city, Garg said that they have sent a recommendation for the creation of six more exclusive traffic police stations in addition to the existing seven.
The heavy evening downpour on Thursday left commuters
stranded -- many without fuel and water -- on their way back home from Gurgaon till well past midnight.
"In the last 17 hours, people have been waiting on the road, they have been sleeping on top of vehicles, some abandoned their vehicles and returned home," Surjewala said, and insisted that party was not poulticing the issue.
Meanwhile, Gurgaon police said it will take sometime to clear the highway.

"District authorities and our team were trying our best," it said.
The traffic jams affected both flyovers and service lanes in Gurgaon as well as Rajeev Chowk, Sohna Road, Signature tower, Old Gurgaon, Khirki Daula toll plaza and Manesar from Jaipur to Gurgaon side.
The Badshahpur Drain was overflowing on Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway which led to the water logging.
Some of the stranded commuters raised slogan's against Gurgaon Police and Municipal Corporation.