Brace yourself for more back-breaking rides

City roads face massive digging in coming days for CCTV surveillance system project

The project by the Telangana Police to increase CCTV surveillance system in the city is set to cause untold misery to the commuters by way of backbreaking rides and traffic chaos.

The CCTV cameras dotting the city’s skyline invariably need fibre backbone, to provide which, great deal of road length needs to be dug up in the coming years. Already, a proposal is reliably learnt to have reached the State government for digging up a total of 940 km of road length, to provide fibre network for 10,000 surveillance cctv cameras in hyderabad.

At a recent event, DGP M. Mahender Reddy had revealed plans to have a minimum of 10 lakh surveillance cameras installed across the city within three years, under ‘Nenu Saitham’ project.

The project was proposed for effective surveillance in the area covered by three police commissionerates including Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda. The cameras will be connected to the command control centre to be set up in Banjara Hills.

Road cutting permissions have been sought for providing bandwidth to about 2,000 locations where the cameras would be installed, but the application is kept pending owing to the moratorium on the permissions, sources informed.

Telangana Police is not alone in seeking permissions for road cutting though. Other Telecom and Internet service providers such Aritel and ACT Fibernet too have their applications pending with the State government, for laying of underground lines over 500 km in length.

There is also a pending application for digging up 73 km length between Bolarum and Golconda for a Defence project being taken up jointly by BSNL and L&T, officials told.

Though the project claims to use trenchless technology, pits need to be dug up for every 100 metres, they said.

Pipelines project

Looming in the immediate horizon, however, is a proposal by the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) to dig up the stretches from Prashasan Nagar to Road No. 10 and to Road No.13 for laying of pipelines. Road cutting permissions have been accorded, and as per officials estimates, the works will take 120 days for completion.

Already, the ongoing water works in Malkajgiri and part of Hitech City have left the roads in pathetic condition, turning them non-motorable on many stretches. Road cutting permissions are being accorded only for water works and for electrical infrastructure. The rest had been temporarily suspended owing to the threat of inundation during monsoons. Orders lifting the ban are yet to be given.

Reference: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/brace-yourself-for-more-back-breaking-rides/article22399379.ece

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