Ahmedabad: About 2,000 monitoring cameras are installed in ‘City City’ by state institutions to track crime detection such as chain jambs, road accidents, traffic violations and theft.
However, the dust problem in Ahmedabad, historically referred to as ‘Gardabad’ by Emperor Mughal Jahangir, has become very sty in the third eye, by covering the camera lens and combining the pictures of the Legak.
Every week, the police raised a number of 30-odd service request tickets before Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to repair the camera outside the focus.
In 7 to 10 complaints, the problem is the thick layer of dust snoring camera equipment, making detection beside impossible, say source.
Other problems include obstruction by tree branches, and the nesting birds under camera hoods or perched on it and changed the camera angle.
A police officer said, “Every week, we witnessed 30-40 cameras to produce visual blurred because of dust covering the lens.” Officers said in many fields of construction work by AMC or private contractors left the cloud of dust hanging in the air and blurred vision.
‘97% AMC CCTV Functional Cameras’ Needless to say, dusty cameras blocking crime detection.
For example, two murders – one near Ellis Bridge and the others at Sabarmati Riverfront – committed to June 2019 has not been cracked because there is no visual camera that is clear from violations.
Recently in July this year, the police found a baby’s body a girl floating in Sabarmati near the Jamalpur bridge.
However, CCTV cameras did not have a clear visual from the incident, which inhibited the investigation of CCTV cameras in the city had been installed under various government schemes including the Civic Smart City project, Nirbhaya Fund, Surakha Setu and the House Department’s budget.
AMC, which has 30% of the camera, claims that all smart city projects are still in “project installation phase” because of the number of cameras involved in the project and must be integrated into stupid and safe platform evidence.
At present, 97% of AMC CCTV in working conditions and installation problems there are only 3% of cameras, claimed officials.
“Frankly, the city’s smart project hasn’t gone ‘officially alive’.
AMC will set an operating and maintenance contract in a few days to vendors, after that operational problems such as weekly or monthly maintenance activities will be streamlined,” Claims a Senior AMC official.