An Integrated Command and Control Centre, which will be a central monitoring system of all services will be developed in the union territory of Chandigarh.
For this, the Chandigarh Administration has allotted worth Rs 295 crore project to Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) on Friday.
The meeting of Board of Directors of Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) held under Manoj Parida, Adviser to UT Administrator accorded the approval to financial proposal submitted by BEL for the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC).
“BEL has been allotted the project to develop the ICCC, which will help the UT Administration in data analysis, decision making and effective monitoring of various services. BEL will implement the project in an estimated time span of 15 months,” said UT Adviser Manoj Parida while talking to The Pioneer.
He said, it has been planned that the ICCC will control and monitor the CCTV cameras, automatic number plate recognition system, red light violation detection system, speed violation detection system, e-challan system enabling the automatic challan generation for the traffic violators, Adaptive Traffic Control System and other smart solution like dynamic message boards, public addressing system in Chandigarh
These systems are aimed at reducing the traffic issues of the city and to provide a robust enforcement system to enhance road safety of the citizen.
A dedicated call centre will also be a part of this project which shall help the citizen to get real time information of the services providing under Chandigarh smart city project.
During the meeting, Adviser directed BEL officials that they should maintain good quality of work while execution and the ICCC of Chandigarh should be one-of-its-kind in the country. The project should be implemented in such a way that the citizens shall feel the difference due to the digitalization of the city, he directed.
Notably, the Chandigarh Smart City Limited has also planned to launch a ‘single city, single app’ on April 1. The e-governance project will initially have services, including online building plan approval, fire NOC, RTI, e-Awas, grievance monitoring, electronic human resource management system (e-HRMS) and other digital services of the Municipal Corporation and the UT Administration. The mobile application will be put on trial in the month of March.
Apart from this, the CSCL has also planned that every residential and commercial property in Chandigarh will be given a unique ID, which will be linked to various municipal services. Under this, digital door numbering will be done throughout the city wherein every residential and commercial property will be given a unique ID which will be linked to services such as water supply, electricity supply, property tax etc.
The project is aimed at ensuring effective delivery of various public services apart from improving the collection of bills, property tax, garbage collection among others in the city.
