The Public Works Department in an approval note issued last week has said no cost escalation would be considered for the project.(Representational Image)

New Delhi: The Delhi government has approved an outgo of Rs 571 crore for the installation of CCTV cameras across the national capital to enable the much-delayed pet project of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal get going.

The Public Works Department in an approval note issued last week has said no cost escalation would be considered for the project. The deputy secretary PWD in the September 5 note has said that the department has given “administrative approval and expenditure sanctions of Rs 571.40 crore, of which Rs 320.96 crore is the capital cost and Rs 250.44 crore is for five years for supplying, installation, testing and commissioning of CCTV cameras and other allied infrastructure at various places in Delhi”.

Officials said that all the payments to contractors should be made through electronic fund transfer only. The PWD also demanded a quarterly monitoring report and annual performance report.

The project to install the CCTVs got the government’s approval last month — three years after the Cabinet gave an in-principle approval to it.