All the commercial establishment with an area over 250 square feet falling in the jurisdiction of South Delhi Municipal Corporation has to install CCTV cameras. A proposal in this regard has been approved by the House of South Corporation on Monday. The directives for installation of CCTV cameras had come from the Special Task Force set up under the chairmanship of Union Home Secretary in the aftermath of the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old in the Capital.
According to the proposal, all cinema halls, malls, car parking, hotels, places of public gathering and commercial establishments that are of the size 250 square feet and above will have to put up CCTV cameras. In case of any violation, the commissioner will also have the power to cancel the license of such an establishment. Before that, a penalty of Rs 500 plus an additional Rs 20 can be levied as a punishment for every day the contravention continues.
The installation of CCTVs will now form an essential condition in the license policy for the above mentioned establishments to make sure it is implemented. SR
It was then suggested that after the installation of the close circuit cameras, it should be mandatory to keep a month- long recording of the cameras safe so that if the law enforcement agencies require it, the same can be provided to them.