India, Feb. 18 -- In a major step towards beefing up passenger safety, the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) is set to install 7,035 CCTV cameras across 633 locations in the state to ensure digital surveillance of critical MSRTC infrastructure and prevent misuse of MSRTC buses by anti-social elements. The move comes in the wake of the Swargate case of last February when a young woman was raped inside a parked MSRTC bus at the Swargate bus depot in Pune.

Transport minister and MSRTC chairman Pratap Sarnaik, while announcing the project on Tuesday, said that given the potential threats from anti-social and extremist elements, the Maharashtra government had sanctioned a substantial allocation of Rs.111 crore for the CCTV ...