Punjab Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday launched the first phase of the ludhiana Safe City project which would ensure effective traffic management so as to provide succour to the common public. Elaborating on the project, Sukhbir said that it has come up at the cost of `80 crore and would be instrumental in ensuring safety of the people which is of paramount concern to the State Government. He said the rationale behind the project is to put a stop to the crime as well as ensure effective traffic management so as to provide succour to the common public. Sukhbir said that 159 locales have been equipped with 1442 CCTV cameras keeping hawk's eye on all the significant spots in the city with control room at police lines. He said that this project would go a long way in keeping the law and order situation under control. Sukhbir said that by next year he visualised to implement the project in all the corporation towns of the State. The Deputy Chief Minister also said that soon enough all the link roads, Inside-outside points of the villages would also see the CCTV cameras being installed and would be connected with the district control room. The Deputy CM said Punjab would be the first state in the country where, in the next one and half year, CCTV cameras would be installed in the entire state at a cost of around Rs 500 crore for the safety and security of citizens and to put an end control of crime in the State. After inauguration of safe city project at ludhiana he said this security system would be fully functional by December 20 which would ease traffic problems besides keeping an eye on the crimes in this industrial town.