28 railway stations on NFR to come under CCTV surveillance
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January 09: Security of 28 stations on the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) will be monitored by CCTV. The move follows the Railway Ministry’s decision to provide 19,000 high definition CCTV cameras at 983 Railway stations across the country under the Ra 1000 crore Nirbhaya fund to ensure round-the-clock security to passengers especially women. This was informed in a statement issued by Subhanan Chanda, Chief Public Relations Officer of NFR.

Out of 16 stations 8 (Guwahati, Lumding, Dimapur, Dibrugarh, New Jalpaiguri, Siliguri Jn, Kishanganj, Katihar) were commissioned during the period 2016-18 and 8 are being commissioned now. Out of 8 stations, 5 (Kamakhya, Rangiya, Diphu, Silchar, New Bongaigaon) have been commissioned.  For Kokrajhar, Mariani and New Tinsukia stations work is in progress which are likely to be commissioned by March’2020.

The footages of CCTV would be monitored by trained RPF personnel and concerned station manager will also be given access to the CCTV camera footage whenever needed.