PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to
set up a central close circuit television (CCTV) monitoring unit at its
main office building in Pimpri, where the visuals of all CCTV cameras
installed at various locations like municipal auditoriums, zonal
offices, fire-brigade department and Yashwantrao Chavan memorial hospital, will be monitored.

A civic official said that initially the central unit will monitor CCTV
cameras installed only at the PCMC main building. At present there are a
total of 34 cameras installed in the building. The PCMC has planned to
install 14 more at the main building.

The PCMC has planned to
install CCTV cameras at various other places like civic hospitals,
water-treatment centres, municipal gardens and other auditoriums. A
total of 51 properties have been identified. The total cost of
installation is estimated to be around Rs 7.5 crore. The civic official
said that monitoring of footage cannot be conducted at all the
properties due to technical and other reasons.

“One employee
each of the electrical department, security department and fire brigade
of the PCMC will monitor the footage at the PCMC main building. We will
be able to store the footage of one month,” the official said.