Overview
- In a statement on Monday, the Delhi Metro said conclusions drawn from RTI responses were misleading and selective, asserting that women’s safety on the network is not compromised.
- About 24,000 CCTV cameras are described as functional each day across the system, including roughly 11,000 inside trains and 13,000 at stations.
- DMRC said the 300–500 number cited for 2020–2024 represents yearly maintenance totals that equate to only one or two cameras being serviced on a typical day.
- The agency stated that no train is put into service with faulty CCTV and that overlapping fields of view prevent blind spots during maintenance.
- Planned upgrades include replacing older units with IP-based cameras and adding video analytics, alongside safety measures such as women-only coaches, emergency alarms, helplines and the CISF ‘Kali Squad’ of trained female commandos.