Integrated Command & Control Centres in 20 cities : Puri

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New Delhi : The Integrated Command & Control Centre projects, which enable fast and efficient citizen service delivery in an integrated way, are being developed in 20 cities and are already operational in cities like Pune, Surat, Vadodara, producing positive results.Ten  more cities have issued tenders for developing command and control centres in their cities, said HUA Minister (IC) Hardeep S Puri on December 8, 2017, while addressing a National workshop on ‘Accelerating Implementation of Urban Missions: AMRUT and SMART Cities’ here.

Delivering the inaugural address at the workshop, the Minister informed that for smart reuse and wastewater projects, 33 cities have issued tenders, and work has begun in 16 of them. In order to promote renewable energy usage in the cities, projects for providing Solar projects on rooftops of government buildings have been encouraged. Till date, 44 cities have issued tenders, and work has begun in 38 cities. Most of these cities have completed their projects, he informed.

The AMRUT and Smart Cities Missions can be seen as inter-linked programmes where AMRUT follows a project-based approach and Smart Cities Mission an area-based strategy. Although area based approach is not new, the way Smart City is conceptualized, it is meant to set examples that can be replicated both within and outside the Smart City. It is, therefore, expected to catalyse creation of similar Smart Cities in various parts of the country, Puri further added, according to a PIB release .