Elaborate security measures have been planned for the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR). A CCTV surveillence network will cover all Metro Rail stations, parking and circulation areas, viaduct and track, trains, depot areas, vital installations and machinery, operations control centre (OCC) and construction sites.

Review meet held

This was decided at a review meeting held by the Ministry of Home Affairs at New Delhi recently attended by HMR MD, Mr N.V.S Reddy, Jt. Commissioner of Hyderabad Police (Security), Mr Kumar Viswajit, senior officials of Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Urban Development, Intelligence Bureau (IB), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and representative engineers and architects of L&T.

Passenger security will be mainly ensured through access control and installation of CCTVs at stations, sensors and alarms for monitoring of unmanned areas, checking and frisking of passengers at concourse gates, scanning of baggage, installation of intrusion detection systems (IDS), on-board surveillance through video recording in trains and anti-sabotage checking. Bigger X-ray machines will be installed at important stations.

Mr Reddy stated that the Metro station layouts envisage proper positioning of AFC (Automatic Fare Collection) gates, baggage screening facilities, adequate space before ticket counters and gates to avoid crowding.

Similarly, cyber security measures would be given special emphasis with provision of IT and communication network security, security of SCADA systems, installation of dedicated data transmission networks etc., he added in a press release.

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