According to sources to provide a safe and secure travel experience to passengers, India Railways is pitching for the procurement of about 12 lakh CCTV cameras to ensure state of the art surveillance systems in all trains and stations across the country. As per report the Railways will make a provision of around Rs 3,000 crore in its budget for 2018-19 to install CCTV systems in all 11,000 trains including premier and suburban services and all the 8,500 stations.
Meanwhile as per the plan, while each coach will have eight CCTV cameras covering the entry gates, aisle and vestibules, all crucial points at stations will have the systems. Presently there are about 395 stations and about 50 trains that are equipped with CCTV systems.
Moreover Finance Minister Arun Jaitley would roll out the details of
provision for strengthening safety mechanism in train operations in his Budget
2018-19. Furthermore besides track defects, unmanned level-crossings are among
the reasons for the maximum number of train accidents and it has been decided
to eliminate all unmanned level crossings by 2020.
