Archive · 2 Sep 2026
Telangana Plans ANPR Cameras, AI for Smarter Transport Surveillance
Telangana wants to use cameras to make road transport safer and easier to monitor.
The government plans to install 60 cameras that can read vehicle number plates.
These cameras will help officials find traffic violations.
Officials also want to use artificial intelligence to improve transport surveillance.
More workers have been appointed to the Transport department.
Check-posts were removed because the government said they could cause harassment.
The minister said the state bus service is very important to poor and middle-class people.
He said the government wants to strengthen the bus service and eventually make it the best public transport organisation in the country.
Telangana has begun steps to install 60 ANPR cameras to detect traffic violations.
The government plans to use artificial intelligence to improve transport-system surveillance.
The Transport department appointed 113 AMVIs, 50 constables, 20 junior assistants and four MVIs.
Transport check-posts were abolished to prevent harassment, while district enforcement teams were strengthened.
Minister Ponnam Prabhakar said the government aims to transform TGSRTC into India’s No. 1 public transport organisation.
- Who
- Telangana Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar and the State Transport department.
- What
- The government is installing ANPR cameras, planning AI-based surveillance and strengthening transport enforcement and public transport.
- When
- The minister announced the measures while speaking to the media on Tuesday.
- Where
- Hyderabad and across Telangana.
- Why
- To detect traffic violations, make transport surveillance more effective, prevent harassment at check-posts and strengthen public transport.
- ANPR cameras planned
- 60
- Technology proposed
- Artificial intelligence for transport surveillance
- New AMVIs appointed
- 113 Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspectors
- Other appointments
- 50 constables, 20 junior assistants and four Motor Vehicle Inspectors
- Check-post policy
- Transport department check-posts were abolished
- Public transport body
- Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC)
- Stated ambition
- Transform TGSRTC into the No. 1 public transport organisation in the country