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News Topical, Digital Desk : Railways has increased focus on women's safety during travel. CCTV cameras will be installed in the coaches of all mail and express trains for the safety of women during travel. In the current financial year, cameras are being installed in more than 11 thousand coaches.
Also, now there is a plan to install SOS (Panic) button in all the coaches that will be manufactured, which will be able to immediately alert the driver and security team in case of emergency. Railways has taken steps at many levels giving priority to the safety of women passengers. Work is being done on identifying suspicious activities through AI based surveillance system.
HD quality cameras will be installed in train coaches
All the CCTV cameras installed in the coaches are of HD quality, in which recordings of at least one month can be saved. Top priority is being given to installing CCTVs in ladies coaches, sleeper and general coaches. Arrangements are being made that all the cameras will be directly connected to the RPF control room, so that monitoring and action can be expedited.
Panic buttons will be installed in new coaches
The Railways is planning to install CCTV cameras in the coaches of all express trains in the next two years. Keeping in mind the challenges of women's safety during travel, it has been made mandatory to install panic buttons in all the coaches being built now, which will also be connected to a mobile app, so that in case of emergency, the passenger can send an alert from the mobile as well. Arrangements for face recognition technology, CCTV surveillance and crowd control teams are being made at all the smart stations being built in the country.
Deployment of women staff in waiting rooms is being made compulsory. Focus is being increased on sensitive stations. More than seven hundred stations are in the list of 'sensitive or super-sensitive' stations, where more number of women RPF are being deployed.
Decision taken to control crime during travel
Railway's Executive Director (Information) Dilip Kumar said that an integrated strategy has been made to control crime during train travel. In a recent review, it was found that intelligence gathering has increased through 'Rail Madad'. Also, initiatives like 'Meri Saheli' have increased the confidence of women while travelling.
It is being expanded to a great extent. Each team has at least two members. Their job is to monitor the rail journey from start to finish. One team is deployed in every long distance train. The number is also increased if needed. So far it is active at two hundred stations.
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