No files on CCTVs pending, says Anil Baijal

New Delhi: The face-off between lieutenant-governor Anil Baijal and the Aam Aadmi Party dispensation is unlikely to die down with the L-G house on Monday issuing a statement asserting that no file pertaining to the CCTV project was pending with Mr Baijal.

“A misleading impression is being created through certain media posts and releases that the file for installation of CCTVs in Delhi by GNCTD is pending with the office of the lieutenant-governor, Delhi. It is hereby clarified that this is incorrect. No file pertaining to installation of CCTVs in Delhi by GNCTD is pending with the office of the lieutenant-governor, Delhi,” the statement said.

Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi convenor, who marched with other party legislators to the Sansad Bhavan earlier in the day, said that once Delhi is granted full statehood, projects such as the installation of the CCTV cameras across the city for women’s safety could be achieved easily by the AAP government.

On July 30, CM Arvind Kejriwal had publicly torn up the report of a panel set up by Mr Baijal to work out guidelines for installation and monitoring of CCTV cameras in the capital. Mr Kejriwal had said that no permission was required from the police to install the cameras.

Addressing a gathering of Resident Welfare Associations, market associations and non-governmental associations at the Indira Gandhi Stadium, Mr Kejriwal had claimed that crime would be reduced by half if surveillance cameras were set up across Delhi.