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OU to install 500 Surveillance Cameras
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With a view to step up vigilance and checkmate unlawful activities on the campus and constituent colleges, Osmania University authorities have decided to install 500 closed circuit TV cameras (CCTVs).
Cyber eye on campus
Hyderabad: With a view to step up vigilance and checkmate unlawful activities on the campus and constituent colleges, Osmania University authorities have decided to install 500 closed circuit TV cameras (CCTVs).
These surveillance cameras, which will come up at key places like colleges, departments, mess and hostels, playgrounds and on the university roads, will monitor the activities of the students from January 2016. However, classrooms and lecturer halls will not be under the surveillance system.
While the University Grants Commission has issued a circular to install CCTVs a few months ago, the OU had set the process in motion only after Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Kadiyam Srihari directed the varsities to install electronic surveillance and biometric systems at a meeting of the Vice-Chancellors held recently. He directed them to complete the work of installation by December.
The university will introduce the biometric system in all the colleges, 24 hostels and messes to weed out non-boarders. This system will be made mandatory for the students and faculty members. The officials say that the system will checkmate the scholars who have been renting out their rooms and facilities for a price to the outsiders.
“This system will help detecting impersonation and also for the attendance of the students. It remains to be seen how long this system will work as students will definitely oppose it,” said a faculty member. As the project requires Rs 1 crore to execute it, the university is roping in some sponsors to install the new system. Already the university administration is under electronic surveillance system. Now the administration has approached private agencies to install the system and works would commence in a week.
Even before the surveillance system is installed, the students objected to saying the administration was breaching into their privacy. They said the administration has to provide basic facilities like water, consumable food in the hostels.
“During the past two days we are not getting water in the hostels. In first place, we should have basic facilities not CCTVs,” said B Babu, a student of Arts College.
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