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The different engaged Balaipadi junction successful Udupi Town wherever caller postulation awesome is acceptable to travel up soon | Photo Credit: UMESH S. SHETTIGAR
Udupi constabulary volition determination towards ‘contactless system’ of monitoring postulation violations by installing 150 surveillance cameras successful different 3 months.
Violations specified arsenic rash and negligent driving, awesome jumping and driving without wearing seatbelts volition beryllium monitored done the cameras.
Udupi Superintendent Police Hariram Shankar told The Hindu, that the cameras volition beryllium installed astatine engaged postulation junctions on the National Highways, which person been witnessing much fig of accidents, and different places crossed the district. Road information funds provided by the Central and State Governments volition beryllium utilized to acquisition and hole cameras.
“We volition person a abstracted postulation automation centre. Like successful Mangaluru, postulation usurpation enforcement volition beryllium ‘contactless’ shortly,” Mr. Shankar said.
In addition, regular CCTV cameras volition besides beryllium installed astatine important places crossed the territory for which Udupi Chamber of Commerce and Industry has chipped successful with funds, the SP said.
In different 2 weeks, the Udupi City Municipal Council volition instal caller postulation signals astatine Ambagilu and Balaipadi postulation junctions, the 2 engaged junctions done which vehicles participate and exit Udupi municipality from the National Highway 66. These 2 junctions person besides seen much fig of accidents and presently constabulary person placed barricades to modulate postulation question there.
Mr. Shankar said the 2 caller postulation signals (at Ambagilu and Balaipadi) volition clasp postulation connected the National Highway 66 for astir 2 minutes. About 20 seconds is projected for pedestrians to transverse the Highway astatine those junctions.
Similar postulation signals volition travel up astatine Akashvani Junction successful Brahmavar, Moor Kai Junction successful Kota, Padubidri Junction and Sangam Junction successful Kundapura, the SP said.
