South MCD to install CCTV cameras in 579 schools

Aiming at ensuring security of children, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has initiated a plan to install CCTV cameras in all 579 municipal schools run by it with a budgetary provision of Rs 5 crore in the current year.

“We have installed CCTV cameras in 20 schools so far to fulfil our commitment to provide fool-proof security to students. All schools will have CCTV cameras,” said SDMC Mayor Subhash Arya.

Civic officials will also monitor CCTV cameras to monitor the security of children and address issues related with qualitative delivery of primary education, he said.

“A monitoring team will be constituted in every zone and SDMC officials at the headquarters will supervise security from the control room at the Civic Centre,” Arya said.

The move to install the CCTV cameras has come after 5-year-old Ankit died after he fell in a septic tank at an SDMC school in Kapashera area on January 27 this year.