Kamala Balakrishnan, panchayat president of Zameen Devarkulam, a second grade village panchayat attached to Kuruvikulam panchayat union in Kovilpatti taluk, which has leapt forward on the wings of technology. Tamilnadu.
No grave crime in the last one and a half years. No drinking in public. Water supply regulated with mobile phones.
Many alcoholics had given up the habit of consuming liquor in open places, after the installation of the CCTV cameras. Every activity of the people is monitored in a control room attached to the panchayat office.
With modernisation sweeping it, the village has shot to fame to foster positive social transformation. In the past, the village was notorious for its high crime rate. With closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras installed at seven locations and loud hailers at 15 places on various streets, the village is a model.
While CCTV acts as a crime deterrent, loud hailers are used to take forward government's welfare schemes to people, along with other important announcements, Kamala Balakrishnan, panchayat president, told The Hindu on Monday.
adding water supply was regulated using mobile phones. The phones are used as remote devices to activate pumping station located three km away from residential areas. A Coimbatore-based technocrat designed the technology for the mobile phone.
Out of 64 street lights, 40 are powered by inverters. S. Mari Kannan, panchayat clerk, said stolen jewellery was recovered recently using video footage from the CCTV. The criminal was identified in the footage, and an announcement over the public address system prompted him to leave the property from where it was stolen.
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