Rs 1,000 cr project: Reliance to install CCTV cameras in Mumbai

An IT service provider consortium led by Reliance is set to win the bid for installing CCTV cameras across major traffic junctions in Mumbai, the Economic Times reported today. This is an ambitious project worth Rs 1,000 crore that the Maharashtra government had taken up after the attacks on 26/11.

The consortium comprises of Allied Digital Services, IBM, Cisco and RIL. The project could look at installing almost 6,000 CCTV across the city.

“Of the 10 original bidders for the project, seven were shortlisted, out of which two consortia qualified. On Thursday, the RIL-backed consortium was the lowest bidder for the project, and it is set to win the bid,” ET quoted a Maharashtra government official as saying.

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RIL had entered the homeland security and aerospace business after they roped a former Nsasa scientist Vivek Lall. Lall, CEO of RIL’s homeland and aerospace business, declined to comment to ET on the consortium emerging as the lowest bidder for the CCTV project.

This project of installing CCTV cameras across the state to make real time footage available to the police control room was taken after a series of major terrorist attacks the city faced beginning in 1993 when several bomb blasts happened across Mumbai in a span of few hours.

Since 2002 the frequency has gone up with 26 people being killed in July last year.