Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, July 24: Secretary Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation & Reconstruction and Secretary Information Technology, Ladakh, Amit Sharma today inspected the progress of the working of Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) which was inaugurated by LG Ladakh last month.
He also checked the progress of construction work of the upcoming UT Data Centre.
Sharma took an extensive round of EOC along with Deputy Secretary IT, Abdul Majid and Manager/Staff of the Centre wherein he mentioned that a lot more needs to be done to make the Centre fully functional such as integrating its services with Traffic Department automation, Safe City Projects, setting-up of an Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) here for sensor-based disaster warning and mitigation along with information dissemination to the public much before natural calamities take place in future.
Amit also reiterated the vision of LG Brig. Dr. B.D Mishra (Retd) and Advisor Dr. Pawan Kotwal regarding giving best services to the public of the Union Territory which can be best provisioned by utilising the existing infrastructure of EOL and creating all 365 day LG Grievance Cell here only.
The Secretary also conducted a site visit of UT Data Centre and issued strict directions to CPWD to finish the construction work well within timelines on a war-footing basis as there is limited working season in the UT and moreover, Ladakh is in dire need to have its own Data Centre to host multiple kinds of data which are at present, being hosted in other Data Centres on request basis.
He directed his team to conduct weekly assessment of the progress in both these ongoing projects.
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