A project of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to secure the city during the Ganesh festival immersion procession is under the lens for all the wrong reasons. The civic body had proposed to engage 60 CCTV camera units at various spots of immersionroute and riverside areas. According to tender the rent of each camera unit for two days was Rs 47,000. Taking into account the total equipment and manpower required to operate them for two days, the total cost of the tender was pegged at Rs 30 lakh.

Keeping an eye: Tilak Chowk, one of the sixty spots where PMC was to install CCTV units for Ganpati immersion procession. Pic/Sachin Thakare