In a case of better late than never, Mumbai witnessed the inauguration of Phase-I of the pan-Mumbai CCTV camera surveillance network, wherein 1,000 cameras went operational across half of South Mumbai yesterday.

A report in this paper quotes Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis crediting the BJP-led state government for completing the project. Fadnavis fluffed his party’s feathers and said it was a project that was pending for the last seven years but the present government completed in less than a year.