New Delhi: Ever since coming in power, the Kejriwal Government has maintained a gold standard of delivering upon its promises. Delhi ranks highest across the world in CCTVs per square mile; Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Government delivers on its promise. This achievement comes as another feather in the cap of the Kejriwal Government which has been completely devoted to its vision of good governance and people-oriented groundwork.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, listening to the demands of the people of Delhi, took up the largest public safety initiative by far in the history of Delhi and took a resolve for installing CCTVs throughout the national capital. Delhi has now surpassed cities like London, Shanghai, New York and Singapore to rank number one across the globe in terms of CCTVs installed per square mile.
In an analysis of 150 cities across the world, Delhi topped with 1826 CCTVs per square mile. It is noteworthy that no other Indian city is even close to Delhi, which has 3 times the CCTVs than Chennai and 11 times that of Mumbai per square mile. Despite continuous roadblocks by the LG & the Centre, the Kejriwal Government did not deter in enhancing women’s safety in Delhi and even sat on a dharna at the LG House in order to pave the way for the CCTV project.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal expressed his delight over the numbers on Twitter and said, “I feel proud to say that Delhi beat cities like Shanghai, New York and London with most CCTV cameras per square mile across the world. At first, Delhi has 1826 cameras, while at second, London has 1138 cameras per square mile. My compliments to the Delhi Government’s officers and engineers who worked on the project like a mission and achieved the feat in such a short time.”
Delhi Government has fulfilled the promise it made to the people of Delhi and delivered CCTV coverage to the city. This move came after the repeated demands of citizens for CCTV coverage in public areas of the city. The Public Works Department of the Government of Delhi took up the process of acquiring and installing 2.75 lakh CCTVs in phase one of the project. A further 1.4 lakh CCTVs are in the process of installation at present.