Interacting with a section of the media, DMC chairperson K. Khekaho Assumi informed that the council has decided to install four CCTVs in the New Market area –one towards the Dhobinala road, one at church road, another near the ‘mutton stalls’ and the last, towards the new fish market.
The DMC chief said the devices are highly sophisticated branded cameras. The security project will also include construction of a control room with all the monitors. The estimated cost of the project is about Rs. 5 lakhs and it will be constructed with 50-50 funding between the DMC and the shopkeepers of New Market.
The installation of the CCTVs, which is to begin in a week’s time, is expected to aid in maintaining security in the busy market area, especially in view of the deteriorating law and order situation.
After New Market, the DMC said that the same kind of work would be carried out for Hongkong Market where in 2003 a deadly bomb took a number of lives.
‘Contribute for city ambulance’
In addition to these, another project is to acquire an ambulance for the public in times of need. Talking of the difficulties faced by many people in transporting the sick and the dead, the DMC hopes to have an ambulance stationed at the council’s office for those in need of such services but are usually unable to afford it.
However, he said, the DMC will not be able to buy an ambulance costing about-Rs. 10 lakhs or Rs. 14 lakhs, all by itself.
The council calls upon all the citizens of Dimapur to contribute to this project, through the chairperson and assured that the names of each contributor would be laminated on the sides of the ambulance.