The largest train station in Gujarat would have an AI-enabled, IP-based CCTV system with facial recognition software, the railway ministry claimed. A year later, RPF is still waiting for the installation of a number of cameras, metal detectors for door frames, and an under-vehicle inspection system.
Be advised that you are in charge of your own safety if you are heading to the train station. Because the airport-like security that was promised for the Kalupur railway station a year ago is still pending. The Railways took great pride in finishing the IP-based VSS installation at 10 Gujarat railway stations earlier this week. Ahmedabad, however, is not one of them because the work is still “in progress”.
Additionally, the Railway Ministry had intended to equip the station with Internet Protocol-based CCTV cameras with facial recognition software. However, barely half of the CCTV cameras have been set up over the 12-platform train station’s length and breadth.
A report showed that the station’s boundary walls had numerous breaches and that none of the five Door Frame Metal Detectors with the RPF had been installed. The RPF still does not have an Under-Vehicle Inspection System to inspect the undercarriages of vehicles pulling into and parking at the train station, and two pieces of baggage-checking X-ray equipment have not yet been delivered.
Those who are aware of the situation claimed that red tape and obstacles caused by renovations to give the railway station a “historical look” had prevented much progress on the project.
The safety and security of the State are thought to depend on Gujarat’s largest train station, Ahmedabad. The station, which receives an estimated 1.3 lakh visitors each day, has received numerous bomb threats and terrorism alerts.
According to a report from January 9, 2019, Ahmedabad had been selected as one of 202 Indian railway stations to take part in Phase-I of the Integrated Security System (ISS), which intends to give rail transportation systems the same level of security as airports. The system was supposed to be put into use at Gujarat’s four railway stations: Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, and Godhra.
At Bhavnagar Terminus, Udhna, Valsad, Veraval, Nagda, Navsari, Vapi, Viragam, Rajkot, and Gandhidham, the Railways have installed IP-based Video Surveillance Systems (VSS). Ahmedabad is patiently waiting.
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