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MAPUSA
Even as most of the surveillance cameras installed in the Mapusa municipal market have stopped functioning, the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) has made plans to install more cameras around the town preferably before Ganesh Chaturthi.
There are plans to install at least 7 more CCTV cameras “ around the Hutatma Chowk circle, taxi-stand and at other strategic points.
“The council had passed a resolution to install surveillance cameras in the town sometime back. We are going to install at least seven more cameras at different points,” said MMC Chairperson Ryan Braganza.
The decision was taken during a meeting between the MMC and the local administration to take stock of the approaching Chaturthi festival.
Apart from the Chairperson and local councilors, Mapusa PI Tushar Lotlikar, Traffic PI Tushar Vernekar, Fire Officer Bosco Ferrao, Mapusa Merchants Association President Ashish Shirodkar were among those present at the meeting.
The chairperson said that estimates for installation of the cameras were already prepared and the council was planning to fix the cameras before the Chaturthi festival begins.
Mapusa PI informed that barring one or two, most of the cameras installed in the municipal market had stopped functioning.
The chairperson assured to look into the matter and write to the agency which had installed the cameras.
In 2015, the civic body had installed seven cameras at the main entrance to the market, opposite the Bata showroom in Sirsat building, market entrance from KTC side and at strategic points inside the main market.
Paramount Engineering Pvt Ltd had then bagged the tender to install the CCTV cameras for a total cost of Rs 5 lakh.
