In an effort to reduce the number of robberies and assaults that occur on Mumbai’s streets, the state government of Maharashtra plans to deploy cameras equipped with facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence. According to statements made by the Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the undertaking is a component of the second phase of the strategy to monitor Mumbai. On the evening before the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, Minister Devendra Fadnavis delivered these remarks.
Within a year, the state government had CCTVs installed across Mumbai as part of the first phase of the project. Following the terrorist incident on 26/11, a report was presented to the government with a number of recommendations, one of which was to take the measure that was just described.
He stated that there is no longer any cause for fear in the city of Mumbai today. In the last eight years, there has not been a single event in Mumbai that can be classified as an act of terrorism. In addition to this, there has been a significant crackdown on organised crime and extortion. The terrorist attack on September 11 was described by him as a “wound that cannot be healed and a stain that cannot be erased.”
The Deputy Chief Minister claimed that the governments who were in place at the time did not put the report’s recommendations into action. “When I got the chance to be the CM, we started to implement proposals such as bringing the city under CCTV monitoring, colour coding of boats for identification at sea, and the ‘Sagar Kavach’ practise for defence,” he added. “These are just a few examples of what we were able to do.”
