With body cameras, ex-faujis to check violations on national highways
NEW DELHI: In a first ever initiative to monitor violations of traffic rules on national highways, the road transport ministry will deploy mobile teams of ex-defence personnel armed with body-cameras and will install CCTV cameras on 11 highway stretches in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar. While the deployed ex-servicemen will record traffic violations during the patrolling of designated stretches, CCTV cameras fixed at every 5 km interval will capture all violations around the particular spot.
Road transport ministry officials said all the cameras used in this project including body cameras will give direct feed to the control rooms, which will be set up. “These will also be linked to the police control room so that they can record the violations and issue challan or take any other necessary action. This entire pilot project will be conducted in association with the local police and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) which has all the depository of vehicle and drivers data. Police can easily get all details of the vehicle owner and violators from NIC database,” a ministry official said.
The pilot will cover 1,550 km of NH corridors, which have been identified based on high rate of accidents, and will involve about Rs 300 crore expenditure. The World Bank will provide financial assistance for this project.
As per the plan, one team of ex-servicemen will be deployed round-the-clock at an interval of 60 km. "Fixing body cameras on them is aimed at recording all incidents and even any misbehaviour by the violators of traffic rules. While the fixed CCTV cameras will record violations including speeding, wrong overtaking and zig-zag driving, ex-servicemen will record other violations such as wrong parking and driving against the flow of traffic," said the official.
The pilot is being taken up at a time when NHs share in total road deaths has been hovering around 33-35%. Though managing and enforcing traffic rules are the responsibilities of local police, they often don't focus on NHs due to manpower shortage and also because NHs are owned by the central government.
Unlike other countries, India doesn't have a National Highway Police Patrol system and therefore, one hardly spots a cop on the NHs. The pilot will pave way for expanding this to other NHs. "We have already held rounds of meetings with the state police where the pilot scheme will be rolled out," said an official.
Though the Central Industrial Security Force had first mooted the proposal in 2005 to set up a uniform agency to man the NHs, nothing has happened except a few rounds of meetings.
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Road transport ministry officials said all the cameras used in this project including body cameras will give direct feed to the control rooms, which will be set up. “These will also be linked to the police control room so that they can record the violations and issue challan or take any other necessary action. This entire pilot project will be conducted in association with the local police and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) which has all the depository of vehicle and drivers data. Police can easily get all details of the vehicle owner and violators from NIC database,” a ministry official said.
The pilot will cover 1,550 km of NH corridors, which have been identified based on high rate of accidents, and will involve about Rs 300 crore expenditure. The World Bank will provide financial assistance for this project.
As per the plan, one team of ex-servicemen will be deployed round-the-clock at an interval of 60 km. "Fixing body cameras on them is aimed at recording all incidents and even any misbehaviour by the violators of traffic rules. While the fixed CCTV cameras will record violations including speeding, wrong overtaking and zig-zag driving, ex-servicemen will record other violations such as wrong parking and driving against the flow of traffic," said the official.
The pilot is being taken up at a time when NHs share in total road deaths has been hovering around 33-35%. Though managing and enforcing traffic rules are the responsibilities of local police, they often don't focus on NHs due to manpower shortage and also because NHs are owned by the central government.
Unlike other countries, India doesn't have a National Highway Police Patrol system and therefore, one hardly spots a cop on the NHs. The pilot will pave way for expanding this to other NHs. "We have already held rounds of meetings with the state police where the pilot scheme will be rolled out," said an official.
Though the Central Industrial Security Force had first mooted the proposal in 2005 to set up a uniform agency to man the NHs, nothing has happened except a few rounds of meetings.
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References
- ^ violations of traffic rules (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ national highways (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ road transport ministry (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ body-cameras (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ CCTV (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ National Informatics Centre (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ NH corridors (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ World Bank (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ traffic rules (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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