Celebrations of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav at Integrated Command and Control Centre

Chandigarh, August 16:- Commemorating the glorious 75 years of Independence, Chandigarh Smart City Limit (CSCL) organized a visit to the state-of-art Integrated Command and Control Centre located in Sector 17, Chandigarh.

A group of 28 students from Government College of Education, Sector 20 witnessed the Brain of City in action.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts of the Chandigarh Smart City Limited gave a full demonstration on live functioning of ICCC enabled citizen centric services like Management of Traffic, Public Bike Sharing, Intelligent Traffic management System, Solid Waste Management, E-Governance, Sewerage, Electricity and Smart Lighting on the video wall in ICCC.

In view of celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, various visits have been planned to showcase the projects of the ICCC to the different groups of people for mass awareness under the leadership of Ms. Anindita Mitra IAS, Chief Executive Officer, Chandigarh Smart City Limited cum Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh.

“Integrated command and control center (ICCC) striving to provide efficient service deliveries, a safe and secure environment and better quality of life to the citizens. It acts as a “nerve centre” for operations management. It processes a complex and large pool of data sets at an aggregated level. ICCC is designed to enable city administrators to monitor the status of various amenities, any kind of disaster by providing them the real time incident details and help in rapid resolution of the situation”, she said.

The group of college students also visited the state-of-the-art call centre, 24x7 help desk, which has also been established in ICCC building for addressing citizen grievances at a faster pace.

“Young generation shall be greatly benefited from this great project. These solutions will help to improve the women safety in the city”, a female student said.

“It is very interesting to see how technology and information from various departments is being collected, processed and then analyzed on daily basis”, feedback from a student.

“We have never seen anything like this hi-tech system earlier; it was very enlightening session, came to know about data integration and E-Governance services”, a student said while asking their queries from ICT experts.