ICCC cameras to check covid guidelines violation

Rajkot: The Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) is going to use the cameras of ICCC (Integrated command and control center) installed under the smart city eye way project to monitor the violation of covid guidelines.
There are nearly 600 cameras installed across the city which are moving cameras. The primary use of these cameras are supposed to monitor traffic violations. Police are using these camera to track criminal activities at public places.
As the cases of Covid-19 positive patients are increasing in the city and per day around 100 people are getting tested positive, the RMC is becoming strict in implementing covid guidelines at public places.
The RMC officials are imposing fines on restaurants and shop owners where they find the violation like people not wearing masks and not maintaining social distance and violating other guidelines. The RMC in a statement said that now it would monitor the violation of covid guidelines norms through these cameras.
“The people sitting in the control room will monitor these cameras for covid guideline violations and inform the field team to raid commercial premises. The ICCC will take the pictures and send them to the field team which will collect the fine based on the photographs,” said a senior RMC official.
The RMC official on Wednesday collected fines of Rs 42,000 from those who did not wear the masks and Rs 20,000 from the tea and Paan shops for not adhering to the rules of social distancing.
POLICE TO HELP RMC IN SURVEYING SOCIETIES
The RMC is going to take the help of police in surveying the residential societies and commercial complexes to find suspected patients. The RMC had made the team of 1,200 employees to carry out the mass survey and tests to contain the spread of deadly virus. The doctors and para medical staff of these teams complained about the non-cooperation of people and insulting tones. Looking at the grievances the RMC has decided to depute police personnel in these teams.