Kejriwal Led AAP Government To Take Electricity From Private Homes To Fulfil Promise Of Installing CCTV 

Residents in Delhi, on whose boundary walls cameras would be installed as a part of the mega CCTV project, will have to provide power from their residential connections, The Hindu reports.

The Delhi government's ambitious CCTV project would see 1.4 lakh camera’s installed across the city. Residents would need to sign an undertaking and should not disconnect the power’s to the CCTV, AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj said.

Since the power would come from their homes, the government will be subsidising their connections. A team which includes the local MLA or his representative along with the PWD, police, RWA and BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited) officials are visiting various areas to urge people to sign the undertaking.

The CCTV cameras would be wireless and use sim cards to transfer data, only when its charged. The government decided to use power from houses to avoid the congestion of power cables in the colony. There would be a decentralised system to avoid disconnections from miscreants, the MLA said.

The Delhi government’s project aiming to increase security in the city received an adverse response from privacy group Internet Freedom Foundation over fears of turning the capital to a ‘surveillance state’. They claimed the project was pushed without public consultation or feasibility studies and sent a notice on the same.