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A senior home department official said the administrative and financial approval was issued by the home (police) department on February 11, following a proposal from the Uttar Pradesh Police headquarters. The project targets districts not covered under existing smart city and integrated traffic management systems, aiming to strengthen traffic regulation, surveillance, and enforcement of road safety norms.

The Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned ₹8.99 crore for installing 1,338 CCTV cameras and related equipment at 297 major intersections in 57 districts to improve traffic management and road safety.

In a first, Lucknow will get artificial intelligence-enabled camera surveillance for the safety of citizens.

A total of 1,000 AI cameras equipped with face recognition technology have been installed at key locations across the city.

Municipal Commissioner and CEO of Smart City Lucknow, Inderjit Singh, said: "As part of the Safe City project, these CCTV cameras have been placed strategically and will capture suspicious movement of persons by scanning faces against police database and alert control rooms in case of any criminal activity."

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has emphasised the integral role of public cooperation in ensuring the success of the Safe City Project.

While reviewing the progress of the Safe City Project on Friday, the chief minister said that CCTVs should be compulsorily installed in commercial establishments, intersections, government and private hospitals as well as educational institutions.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath highlights Gorakhpur's infrastructural advancements, urging citizens towards sustainable urban development. Inaugurating a community hall, he stresses safety, environmental responsibility, and affordability, aligning with PM Narendra Modi's Smart City vision. Major initiatives include tree plantations and improved civic facilities.

The district administration claims to be committed to the Chief Minister’s pledge of public safety. District Magistrate and CEO of Smart City Ltd, Savin Bansal, upon assuming charge, had conducted thorough review meetings of the CCTV cameras installed for public safety in the city, resulting in the activation of previously inactive cameras.

In the past one month, 60 cameras, including those at Mussoorie Diversion and Sai Mandir, along Rajpur Road and other key locations, have been activated. This proved instrumental in assisting the police to track down a car involved in a hit-and-run incident yesterday.

The new operating system is being developed by the country's Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Ravi Kumar Gupta, a spokesman for the DRDO, said.

The DRDO is a wing of the country's Ministry of Defence, and has about 50 laboratories specialized in developing technologies in a number of areas including aeronautics, armaments, electronics, combat vehicles, engineering systems, instrumentation, missiles, advanced computing and simulation, special materials, naval systems, life sciences, training, information systems and agriculture.

India has taken a significant step towards fortifying its smart city infrastructure against cyber threats with the release of new cybersecurity guidelines by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in collaboration with global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. As urban centres increasingly integrate digital technologies to enhance governance, security, and operational efficiency, the risk of cyberattacks targeting these interconnected systems has surged. Recognising the urgent need for robust security mechanisms, the newly formulated guidelines provide a comprehensive roadmap to safeguard critical urban infrastructure from digital vulnerabilities.

Officials who accompanied the home minister to the US earlier this month maintain he was keen to to create a hi-tech centre in New Delhi that mirrors the talent and capacity of the one in Washington in being able to deal with threats to India.

The government plans to spend a whopping Rs 10,000 crore, or three per cent of its annual plan budget, on e-governance projects in 2010-11, said an official from the Ministry of Information and Technology.

Despite this and the new amendment to the Information Technology (IT) Act that gives more teeth to the police if you sell sensitive data from your office, hack someone's Orkut profile or browse unauthorised porn sites, when it comes to securing cyber space, experts are still critical of India's efforts. The latest example is hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI)website.

Jharkhand will soon be a part of the ambitious crime and criminal tracking network system (CCTNS) project of the Union Home Ministry to keep tab on crime and criminals in the state.

Setting the tone for its priority towards bringing about qualitative change in approach of policing, the newly installed Arjun Munda government has given its go ahead to the plan at the first cabinet meeting.

As part of these security measures, it was decided to introduce a biometric identity card system for access control into the port. All employees of the port, port users as well as visitors are required to swipe the card at the entry gates at the time of entry and exit.

Mr Davidar has been in the news recently for having pronounced a land mark judgement in a Phishing Case holding ICICI Bank liable to pay a compensation of Rs 12.85 lakhs to the victim.

Delivering the keynote address at a conference here on ‘Emerging Cyber Threats and Challenges’, Davidar said, “The State government was working on it for more than a year. The policy would secure the information network of government departments.”

Inaugurating the two-day “CeTIT 2010” (Citizens Empowerment Through IT) conference-cum-exhibition, organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), ELCOT, and the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA), Dr. Poongothai said strengthening the security of data exchange and implementation of clear rules for integration of complex government systems were the key challenges, as the government gave final shape to its e-governance policy.

"The entire passport issue process needs to be put on an e-Governance mode in phases," the second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) said in its 11th report released today by M Veerappa Moily, who heads the panel.

Cut to 2010—India is not only a booming economy, but the government agencies are a repository of information that many would like to get their hands on! Whether it is land records, tax records or health records, information housed within government institutions is growing manifold. On the other hand, initiatives like filing tax returns online show that information is getting increasingly digitised, leading to the government increasing its spend on IT infrastructure. For instance, the government plans to spend a whopping Rs 10,000 crore, or 3% of its annual plan budget, on egovernance projects in 2010-11.

Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed Monday, the CBI will work with Indian law enforcement agencies and industry to set up the Cyber and Hi-Tech Crime Investigation and Training Center (CHCIT) for combating cybercrime.

The cyber crime center will be used as a platform to expand cooperation between law enforcement and industry in the areas of sharing information on emerging threats and technologies, security standards, best practices, new challenges from cybercriminals, and improved cybercrime investigation and computer forensics.

Der indische Staat will seine Computersysteme besser absichern und setzt dazu auf ein eigenes Betriebssystem. In zwei Forschungszentren der Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) sollen zunächst 50 Informatiker an der Entwicklung arbeiten, berichtet The Hindu. "Ein eigenes Betriebssystem wird uns helfen, Hackerangriffe auf unsere Systeme zu verhindern", sagt V.K. Saraswat, wissenschaftlicher Berater des indischen Verteidigungsministeriums. Damit soll nicht zuletzt Datenspionage vorgebeugt werden.

According to the Munich-based chip maker, the agreement covers "a close information exchange" in three security areas: smart card technology, future mobile applications, and security components needed to increase the trustworthiness of personal computers and computer networks.