Chandigarh, December 7 – In a bid to make Gurugram a super smart city of Haryana and to provide public facilities available through technology, Haryana Chief Minister Mr. Manohar Lal today inaugurated Integrated command and Control Centre (ICCC) at Gurugram.
The Center has been built a cost of Rs 38 crore. Gurugram has become the first such city in the state with such facility. Union Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Mr. Rao Inderjit Singh was also present on the occasion.
On the occasion, the Chief Minister was apprised that all the government buildings and police stations of the city will be connected with the Fiber network, but currently 160 government buildings and police stations of the city have been connected with this network. The Chief Minister was apprised that with the help of three agencies, so far 400 km of optical fiber has been laid in the city and all the government buildings and adjoining gram panchayats of the city will be connected with the clout network of the data center. The center provides online real time access, evaluation and reporting of data for decisions, paperless work, high speed bandwidth with Wi-Fi and internet facilities as well as video conferencing facility in various offices.
The Chief Minister was informed that in order to make Gurugram Smart City, the facilities such as integrated smart services at this center, the facility of CCTV system for data analysis and monitoring, traffic control and management, property and land record management, public traffic, street light monitoring and control, solid waste management, STP of water Quality Monitoring, Drinking Water Supply Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring, Urban Service Cooperation Center and public participation through Mobile Apps has been given.
The Chief Executive Officer of Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority, Mr. V Umashankar informed that within the next 6 to 9 months, all the government buildings in the city will be equipped with public Wi-Fi system. Apart from this, a mobile app has also been developed for this command and control center by bringing the entire citizen services to the citizens on one platform so that the public can access the live facility through the mobile app. He shared that this app is on trial and will be launched soon. In this control center, to integrate smart services in future, water supply system monitoring and control, public Wi-Fi facility in the city, smart parking, monitoring and control of power distribution system, various message signals and property management will be added. Efforts should be made to provide maximum facilities to the people.
Mr. V Umashankar shared that to increase the reach of this center, plans have been made by marking 358 intersection points and 1200 CCTV cameras will be installed. At present, 250 CCTV cameras have been operated, covering 50 intersection points at present. He informed that 1200 CCTV cameras will be operational on 222 crossings by March-2020. He informed that in this center, besides speed, identification, number plate, color identification of the vehicle, two-wheeler drivers without helmet can be identified. Not only this, with the help of cameras, in the event of road pits, water logging and picketing performance, facial recognition along with crowd counting facility will be possible.
The Chief Executive Officer of GMDA apprised the Chief Minister that the smart street light facility can also be controlled from this center. Apart from this, monitoring of vehicles engaged in solid waste management work will also be done from this center. Drinking water supply meters have been integrated with this center and STPs have also been added. Smart environment meters installed to check pollution status in various areas of the city are also connected to this center which will give information about AQI.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister, through video conferencing, interacted with the people of two-three villages connected with the optical fiber network and said that with the introduction of fiber cable in their village, internet will be provided in the village and there will be easy exchange of information.