Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates key projects in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, March 27

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated several projects, including the state-of-the-art Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) here.

Shah also laid foundation stones of a hostel block of commerce college, a project for constructing 240 houses for police personnel and a bus depot-cum-workshop.

The Union Minister was accompanied by Punjab Governor Banwarlilal Purohit on this occasion.

Under the ICCC project, more than 2,000 CCTV cameras have been installed in the City to keep a check on traffic violations.

The ICCC centre is also integrated with major citizen services including water, electricity, sewage, solid waste management, transport, e-mail governance, parking and public-bike sharing for an effective monitoring of services and data analysis.

It is expected that after the inauguration of the centre, challaning of vehicles through these hi-tech cameras will start. However, the authorities concerned have not announced a date in this regard. At present, a trial run of the centre is under way.

The other projects which the Union Minister inaugurated included a new office building of Chandigarh Housing Board, two government schools and an urban park.

Later, addressing a gathering, Shah said he was visiting the ‘beautiful city’ after a long time and felt very good.

“In the history of the modern world, Chandigarh is the most developed city in the category of planned cities,” said Shah.

He recalled that when he was young, children in Gujarat were then given an example of Chandigarh as the planned and good city.

He said when a city grows, its requirements also change and as times change, there is a change in needs and requirements.

“And those which do not change with the times, they cannot keep themselves relevant,” he said.

He also lauded the Chandigarh administration for making a system to adapt this change.

“And that is not only for people’s facilities, it includes security also, environment protection,” he said.

—with PTI inputs