The Indian Railways has started working to install the hi-tech Video Surveillance System (VSS) at the country's more than seven hundred prominent railway stations with the fund allotted under the Nirbhaya Fund, as reported by PTI. 

The ministry has assigned the RailTel with the task of completing the installation of a Video Surveillance System (VSS) equipped with high-resolution CCTV cameras with a footage storage capacity of more than a month.

CCTV cameras of stations and video feeds will be monitored at three levels to ensure enhanced safety and security at railway premises. The system comes with Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled Video Analytics Software and Facial Recognition Software, which will help to detect known criminals triggering an alert when they enter station premises.

"All these CCTV cameras under the VSS at railway stations, which are major hubs of transportation, would be Internet Protocol (IP) covering the waiting halls, reservation counters, parking areas, main entrance and exit, platforms, foot over bridges, booking offices", said the railway.

Speaking about this move, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnav, said, "We need to rapidly absorb new technology in Railways, be it for rolling stock, construction, safety, cyber security, or in situations where there is a human interface".

Meanwhile, Aruna Singh- Chairman and Managing Director of RailTel said that the finalization of the executing agencies and the implementation of the project will be fast-tracked.

All the CCTV cameras would be networked on optical fibre cable and the video feed of the CCTV cameras will be displayed not only at local RPF posts but also at a centralized CCTV control room at divisional and zonal levels.