A team of technology experts of BITS Hyderabad, IIT Mumbai and IIT Kharagpur, coordinated by Prof. Prasanta Sahu, has won Asian Development Bank’s grant of US$3.99 lakh (₹3.32 crore) to develop TUTEM — Technologies for Urban Transit to Enhance Mobility and Safe Accessibility.
The team had won a global contest amid stiff competition to bag the work and has been working in association with the Hyderabad Metro Rail MD N.V.S. Reddy to develop the technology solutions to enhance the last-mile security for the metro rail passengers which can also be replicated in other cities.
A maiden inception workshop of TUTEM was organised at BITS, Hyderabad campus where DGP Anjani Kumar had promised full support from the Police department to make the technology a success and to give confidence to commuters regarding safe travel in public transport.