Ambala Cantonment’s railway station soon to get 115 HD CCTV

AMBALA: Considered to be one of the busiest railway stations in the region, with a footfall of over 25 thousand people, the security at the

Ambala Cantonment

’s railway station would soon be beefed up with as many as 115 High Definition

CCTV Cameras

. With more than 315 trains pass through it on a daily basis, the Ambala Cantonment’s railway station is also one of the top-revenue generating railway stations across the country.

According to information, the project of replacing the old cameras, which were installed roughly about a decade ago, was initiated shortly after

Northern Railway

’s GM Vishwesh Chaubey visited the Ambala Cantonment’s railway station about a couple of months ago. The Ambala Division officials said that the proposal has been completed and sent to the headquarters, while the project would be started as soon as the permission is granted. The officials informed that the HD CCTV Cameras would be inter-linked with IP Address and could be used by the officials through their mobile phones as well. The officials at key posts would be able to review any corner of the railway station premises through the CCTV Cameras operating them even while sitting in their homes.

The Ambala Division officials stated that a total of ten top officials will be allowed access to the CCTV Cameras. These include Ambala division’s Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Additional Divisional Railway Manager (ADRM), Senior Divisional Commercial Manager (DCM) and seven other senior officials of the division. The officials’ mobile phones and email IDs would be registered in the system so that the officials could log in into the system to operate the CCTV Cameras.

The CCTV Cameras would be installed at places including the entry and exit points of all the platforms, different areas in the railway premises, on the railway bridges, reservation centre and the arrival and exit gate of the railway station.

Ambala Division’s Sr DCM Praveen Gaur

Dwivedi

said that the Ambala Cantonment’s railway station was a strategic and pivotal in terms of security. Dwivedi added, “The process to replace the old cameras with the new HD Cameras was being done to beef up the security at the railway station. The proposal has been drafted and sent to the headquarters and the to install HD CCTV Cameras would start as soon as the permission is granted.”

BOX: The Ambala Cantonment’s railway station at present has 45 cameras, which were installed along with the CCTV control room in 2007 at the railway station. Since then the quality and quantity of these Cameras have been dwindling. Senior railway official disclosed that out of the 45 cameras that were installed, 9 were such in which it was very difficult to identify any person while 4 were not working at all.


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