In tech-driven Telangana, the eyes have it

In tech-driven Telangana, the eyes have it
On February 14, an official of the Telangana government's information and public relations team tweeted a graphic with a picture of the state's upcoming "command and control centre", along with a CCTV camera.

A translation of the Telugu text said thus: "In six months, the command and control building will be ready. One lakh cameras will be processed in under a minute. If you got out for work, by the time you are back, 50 cameras can spot you. Every inch of the state will be under police radar. If a crime happens anywhere, there will be information immediately."




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The ongoing construction of the “command and control centre” building or the “twin towers” as it is locally called, at the heart of Hyderabad's Banjara Hills area, is an unmissable sight. A layman could mistake the building for a swanky corporate campus of a large tech company like Facebook or Google — a familiar sight in the city given its rapid, two-decade-long rise as an information technology hub in India.

One of the large towers in this building (somewhere around 60% of the construction), Telangana police officials say, would house the Telangana Police’s state technology centre and data centres. One entire wing, with a centralised hub of sorts, where the police could access an initial six lakh CCTV cameras, which could potentially rise to ten lakh by the end of 2020.


A recent report by the Bureau of Police Research and Development stated that Telangana had installed nearly 64% (or 2,75,528) of all CCTV cam ..

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