Title - Old CCTVs at Pune railway station of no use: GRP

After the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, Pune railway station was brought under electronic surveillance by installing 34 CCTV cameras to keep an eye on passengers’ movement. However according to the government railway police (GRP) officials, many of these cameras are not working.Monitoring of these cameras is done by the Railway Protection Force (RPF).

However, according to the GRP, many of these cameras are not working. When contacted Inspector Mahendra Rokde, of Pune GRP, he said, “The cameras are very old and whenever we try to get some images from these CCTV through RPF, these images are not clear. Apart from that, these cameras are stationery and not moving due to which they are of no use.” Post the attack, railway administration took various decisions to beef up the security at railway stations and installation of CCTV cameras at railway stations was one of the important decisions.

These 34 CCTV which were installed, according to the Pune railway administration, cover the railway station. When DNA tried to contact RPF officials, they were not available for comment.