Hyderabad, November 07: The much-hyped plan to install CCTVs at various junctions across the Twin Cities to track down traffic violators still remains on paper, two years after it was proposed. Though the project came up for discussion during the Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) meeting recently, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) kept the project on hold reportedly citing lack of funds as the reason.
Sources told Expresso that as per the plan, the pilot project was supposed to be taken up from Greenlands junction to Jubilee Hills checkpost. Based on the success of the pilot project, it was to be extended to other parts of the city.
As part of the implementation, a dedicated monitoring control room was also to be established.
The traffic police would monitor the violations on the road and immediately generate e-challans.
“Traffic jams, breakdown of vehicles can be identified easily and the reaction time of the traffic policemen would be lesser,” an official said.
He said that the increasing number of road accidents could also be curtailed if the project was implemented. Though the project was planned almost two years ago, there is hardly any progress.
“The proposed system exists in some cities of the US including New York.
Implementation of the system would be helpful for the smooth flow of traffic,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ravi Chandra told Expresso.
As part of the proposed project, synchronisation of traffic signals will also be taken up. Once it is implemented, motorists need not wait for a long time at traffic signals, as the signals operates based on the traffic movement on the other side of the junction.
“This will avoid wastage of fuel as the waiting time at each junction will be much lesser,” Ravi Chandra said.
With GHMC already in financial doldrums, the execution of project might not be an easy task for the officials, sources said. As of now, there are 545 traffic signals in the Twin Cities and many are neither working nor existing in the designated places. “The total execution of the project might require Rs 500 crore,” sources added.
–Agencies