Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa said the CCTVs, to be equipped with artificial intelligence features such as facial recognition technology, would enable work to monitor and control activities inside and outside the wholesale market to be carried out more orderly.

“We still find some traders carrying out business outside the wholesale market’s fence and along the walkways, which then affects traffic flow in the area.

“The CCTVs will be installed inside and outside the market for enforcement monitoring by DBKL. We will upgrade them from time to time,” he said at the Mural and Graffiti Competition prize-presentation ceremony at the wholesale market today.

Annuar added that the construction of the hostel facility with over 200 beds for the wholesale market workers was fully completed and set to be used from next month.

“We will consult with the market traders to distribute the quota among the workers who need this facility. This is to help workers who do not have a place to stay or have to pay high rent.”

He said the rental for the facility would be as low as RM150 per month.

Apart from making it easier for the workers to commute to work, it would also attract more local workers, including from outside the capital.

Earlier, Annuar spent almost an hour surveying the transformation of the wholesale market, which is now more comfortable, cleaner, brighter and free of foreign workers following improvements in terms of management and governance.

Among the upgrades are the addition of control room workstations, passes using QR code scans for wholesalers and their workers, fences and motorcycle parking areas.