The police have decided to install CCTV cameras at different locations to check rising crime and keep a close watch on any activity in sensitive areas in the district headquarters.
The police have identified as many as 18 spots including main squares, main roads, national highways and crowded market places which would come under CCTV surveillance, officials said.
The move is expected to control crime, ease traffic problems besides bringing down number of road accidents by making necessary changes in traffic arrangement after analyzing the condition of accident-prone areas and the reasons behind it by monitoring through CCTV cameras , officials said.
On June 21 last year, Inspector General of Police (IG) (Traffic) had invited applications from police of all districts of the State on their requirement of CCTV cameras.
To this, Superintendent of Police Bastar had sent the proposal of installing CCTV cameras at as many as 18 places identified by the police.
The police have already identified as many as 44 spots on national highways and some core areas of Jagdalpur city as accident prone zones.
This apart, Geedam and Bhanpuri Road have been identified as most unsafe spots for passers-by.
In their report, the police have marked as many as 17 spots on NH-30 between Bhanpuri and Jagdalpur Road and three spots in Bodhghat area. Similarly, the police have marked 24 spots on NH-63 as accident prone areas.
Based on their research, the police have prepared a map highlighting the accident prone areas and distributed it among all the government offices, all the police stations and outposts of the district.
“Reckless driving and keeping no control on the speed limit while driving vehicles are prime reasons behind increasing road accidents” said Traffic In-charge, DS Gehalot.
The senior police officials said that traffic burden has increased in last 5-6 years but the police force remained constant in this duration.
“We have identified accident-prone areas in the district. We have instructed the traffic police to control speed of the vehicles playing on national highways. Besides, numbers of fixed points and stoppers have been increased at as many as 16 accident prone areas in the crowded markets” said SP Bastar, Ajay Kumar Yadav.
The officer added that reckless driving and lack of traffic sense among the motorists are some of main reasons behind road accidents.