One hundred Smart Cities are the dream projects of PM Narendra Modi as such special focus on conceptualization, planning, project reports, sanction and time bound implementation on ground. While initially prime focus is on infra restructuring like flyovers, road widening, drains, road laying and footpaths but now the next and most important phase is work on Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC). ICCC is factually a single window solution to many modern day ever growing city problems under one roof. With the ever increasing traffic, it’s almost impossible to man every nook and corner of the city. Things further get complicated due to threat perception from terrorists trying to make their presence felt, as such time and again efforts are made to disturb the peace and harmony of Jammu city, as recent as last week explosives found at railway station. Every big city has unpredictable day to day problems like demonstration and accidents causing road jams, sanitation issues like garbage dumping and choked drains, ever increasing vehicle lifting and usual normal thefts. All these practical problems if handled manually requires a large manpower and corrective response time is quite delayed due to requirement of physical presence. Answer to all these problems is ICCC which will be made operational by next month end. Against total requirement of around 170 poles, 158 have already been installed with camera mounting exercise going on right now. Once completed this ICCC will help in automatic number plate recognition, traffic violation detection and enforcement including red light violation, no helmet, triple riding, no seat belt, mobile usage while driving and wrong parking with the resultant automatic e-challan generation. The system will also provide round the clock surveillance along with video management solution and detect human loitering, abandoned objects, throwing of garbage by the vehicle operators as well as pedestrians, drunken as well as dangerous driving. First floor of the building of the Jammu Municipal Corporation at Town Hall has been chosen as command centre, process of installation of video walls and networking will begin in next few days and these 38 cameras installed at junctions will provide simultaneous live feed to Integrated Command Control Centre, Traffic Police Headquarters at Gulshan Ground and Police Control Room, Parade through secured optical fiber network. The data from ICCC will act as brain for city operations making quick decisions for city administration by making different departments such as Municipal Corporation, Police, Transport, Water, Fire and Emergency Services more responsive and help in future planning of the city.28 more junctions have been identified by Jammu and Kashmir Police Headquarters for installation of hi-tech cameras having linkage with Integrated Command and Control Centre and process is on to get these also installed along with already sanctioned 38 junctions as such once completed ICCC will make traffic monitoring and enforcement, route optimisation, green corridor, reduction in pollution levels and traffic jams, accident detection etc a real time reality.
Use of latest technology is part of Digital India resolution and enough funds have been made available to fulfill this project well in time. One hopes proper planning has been done for all of this unlike other projects in the past like earlier wasteful defunct traffic light system or projects which have been lying pending for years now, some even abandoned. The after maintenance funds provision has also to be taken into account to avoid unpleasant situation later on. Every effort is being made by administration to make Jammu city a better place to live and with ICCC in place citizens also have to behave responsibly to make city cleaner, greener, pollution free and also traffic congestion free. In future there will be no scope of excuses, neither for administration nor for citizens.
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