14th MEETING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CSCL

Approval of Financial Proposal submitted by Bharat Electronics Limited for Integrated Command and Control Centre

Chandigarh, February 7:- The 14^th Meeting of Board of Directors of CSCL was held here today under the Chairmanship of Sh. Manoj Kumar Parida, IAS Adviser to the Administrator, UT, Chandigarh. During the meeting, Board has accorded approval to financial proposal submitted by BEL forIntegrated Command and Control Centreto be setup in Chandigarh.

Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) wil be implementing this project in Rs. 295 Cr. in an estimated time span of 15 months. After implementing BEL will also be maintaining the project for 5 years time period. BEL shall implement Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) as a central monitoring system which will help the city administrators in data analysis, decision making and effective monitoring of the services. 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 shall reduce the traffic issues of the city and provide a robust enforcement system to enhance road safety of the citizen. A dedicated call center will also be a part of this project which shall help the citizen to get real time information of the services provided by the Chandigarh Smart City.

The Chairman has also given directions to the BEL officials that they should maintain the good quality of work while execution and the ICCC of Chandigarh should be one of its kind in the Country. Also the project should be implemented in such a way that the citizens shall feel the difference due to digitalization of the city. The meeting was attended by other Board Members including Sh. Arun Kumar Gupta, IAS, Principal Secretary Home, Sh. Ajoy Kumar sinha, IAS, Finance Secretary, Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner MCC-cum-Chief Executive Officer, CSCL, Sh. Mandip Singh Brar, IAS, DC, Chandigarh, Sh. Mukesh Anand, Chief Engineer-cum-Special Secretary, UT, Chandigarh, Sh. Shalinder Singh, Chief Engineer, MC, Chandigarh, Sh. Kapil Setia, Chief Architect, UT, Chandigarh, Sh. N.P. Sharma, CGM, CSCL.