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Govt approves CCTVs, GPS in public transport

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Stepping up measures for women’s safety across the nation, the government on Thursday approved a Rs 1,405-crore project to track and monitor public transport and provide alarm buttons for alerting authorities.

The project involves setting up of closed circuit television (CCTVs) and using global positioning system (GPS) to ensure safety and security of women and girls in distress. The project will be implemented within a period of two years after allocation of funds.

In the first project to be approved since setting up of the Nirbhaya Fund for women safety, the Union cabinet headed by prime minister Manmohan Singh approved the safety measures for 53 cities with more than a million in population. “The CCEA has approved setting up of a unified system at the national level (National Vehicle Security and Tracking System) and state level (City Command and Control Centre) for GPS tracking of location of emergency buttons in and video recording of incidents in public transport vehicles,” finance minister P Chidambaram told reporters after the meeting.

Chidambaram said the project will help in “providing safety and security to women / girl child in distress in minimum response time” through mapping of routes of public vehicles, their tracking, detecting violations through visual and text signals, panic button alert to transport and police. The pilot project will be implemented in 32 cities in the first phase, followed by 21 cities.

The Centre had announced the Nirbhaya fund after a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped in a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012. The girl later died in a Singapore hospital. The incident sparked protests across the country and brought to the fore the need for safe public transport.

Meanwhile, Chidambaram said that the government will review the decision to hike the price of the non-subsidised LPG cylinders.

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