In a major move to enhance surveillance of traffic and law & order on-road, Chandigarh’s Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) is finally up for operations. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is slated to inaugurate the ICCC on March 25.
To strengthen traffic monitoring and e-governance in the city, nearly 2000 CCTV cameras have been installed at different locations across Chandigarh. These hi-tech cameras will cover as many as 287 different locations across the city for real-time monitoring of traffic junctions and important buildings in the city. Also, the move will improve surveillance in public places such as parks, government hospitals, community centres, parking locations and schools. The CCTV cameras installed across the city will capture all the traffic violations automatically and record the data which the police can access and issue challans for violations accordingly. The system will require no staffers to keep a track of the traffic junctions for catching traffic violators.
As per a report published by The Tribune, Chandigarh’s Municipal Commissioner Anindita Mitra has said that the smart CCTV cameras installed for surveillance are under testing and will be handed over to the police, for issuing digital challans, once cleared. She also mentioned that the cameras will traffic monitoring system will commence from the date of its inauguration by the Union Home Minister.
