Click to play videoMumbai: There will be eyes following you in Mumbai’s railway stations.
The Western Railway has installed closed-circuit cameras in all 30 of its railway stations.
Some thieves were caught red-handed stealing from a cabin in Mumbai Central Railway station in the dead of the night. The youth were later apprehended.
And it was the new closed circuit camera installed there captured the video.
About 530 cameras are being set up at 30 railway stations from Churchgate to Virar, which is part of a long overdue promise the Western Railway had made after the train blasts of 2006.
More than 40 lakh passengers travel on the western line everyday. And the cost of a camera is just 10 paise per passenger---a small price to pay for safety.
But at the cost of Rs 1.2 crore per year, are the railways paying too small a price for the Mumbai's safety?
Zicom, the company behind these security systems, admits it is too basic for monitoring a complex system like the railways.
“It's too basic. We have something called video content analysis that would be better used in this regard. Here, someone has to be watching this 24x7,” says MD, Zicom, Pramod Rao.
Sources in the railways say media pressure forced them to hurriedly install the cameras.
“See, all these things cannot be done perfectly at one stroke. Next year, when we gain more experience, we will get something newer items installed,” says divisional manager, Western Railway, Satya Prakash.
So watch where you step when you get into a railway station in Mumbai as Big Brrother is watching your every move.
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