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New security system at New Delhi station soon

P.Sunderarajan

To be installed at Platform No. 12, it won’t require individual checks

NEW DELHI: Platform No. 12 at the New Delhi Railway Station, one of the busiest in the country, would soon have a new security system. The Central Electronics Limited, a public sector undertaking under the Union Ministry of Science and Technology, would install the system using software and hardware acquired from a firm in the United States.

Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said a salient feature of the system would be that it would not require individual checks. This is a major plus point, considering that the sheer number of people who throng the platform.

At the heart of the system would be a specially designed control mechanism, a proprietary software. It would collect data from a series of surveillance and detection hardware, process and analyse the information, and feed suitable commands to a sub-system for follow up action. The system is estimated to cost Rs. 20 crore.

It would, he said, be a pilot demonstration project. The CEL would integrate the technologies acquired from abroad keeping in view the actual field requirements and test it out in collaboration with the Railways. The tests would include mock exercises.

The project would be replicated later at another public places, which were frequented by large number of people.

Mr. Sibal declined to identify the U.S. company from where the technology is being obtained, saying, “you will get to know about the company soon”.

He also declined to answer questions on how many places the system had been tried out.

He would merely say, “the system has been tested out in the U.S. It has been found to be effective”.

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