The Delhi government is set to launch a comprehensive technical audit of the city’s vast CCTV surveillance network amid growing concerns over faulty implementation and equipment failures in a flagship project initiated by the previous administration, government sources said on Friday.

According to internal assessments, over 32,000 of the 2.64 lakh CCTV cameras installed across Delhi’s 70 assembly constituencies have been found to be non-functional. In addition, more than 15,000 cameras that were part of the sanctioned count were never installed in the first place.

Sources said discrepancies have also been flagged in several constituencies where the actual number of installed cameras falls significantly short of the approved allocation.

In light of these findings, the current government has decided to conduct a full-scale technical audit of the project. The audit is expected to cover installation records, equipment functionality, vendor compliance, and data storage mechanisms, with the aim of identifying lapses and fixing accountability.