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Andhra Pradesh Prepares Regulatory Amendments for Tech-Driven Zero-Crime Plan

Officials are now procuring surveillance equipment, deploying AI tools, integrating drone monitoring in line with Naidu’s zero-crime plan.

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Overview

  • Regulators are drafting amendments to extend the Public Safety Act to shopping malls, hotels and theatres and to permit private CCTV footage in criminal probes.
  • Procurement teams are acquiring CCTV cameras, AI-powered analytics and unmanned drones to enable round-the-clock monitoring of crime hotspots.
  • A blockchain framework is being set up to sanitize and secure revenue records and to consolidate all departmental datasets into a central data lake.
  • Early warning infrastructure is being strengthened with siren-based lightning alerts, restored groundwater sensors and real-time tracking of reservoir inflows and discharges.
  • The Real-Time Governance platform will integrate beneficiary and demographic data under the P4 partnership to streamline welfare delivery and target poverty reduction by 2029.