Traffic monitoring starts at command centre in Karnal

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, December 5

With the inauguration of the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), a major component of the Smart City project, began monitoring of traffic today. The centre was inaugurated by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

Keep check on crime

It will help the police in checking traffic violations and also keep a vigil on criminals. Manohar Lal Khattar, CM

Bring various departments under one roof

It will establish an intensive framework that is bringing inputs from different departments such as police, fire, Karnal Municipal Corporation, district administration etc. on one platform. — Nishant Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner-Cum-CEO, Smart city ltd

Over 500 CCTV cameras, including 50 pan-tilt-zoom security cameras, and 42 cameras in the city and the NH-44, facial recognition system, adaptive traffic control systems (ATCS), automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system, red-light violation detection (RLVD), speed-violation detection system automatic challan will help the administration in keeping vigil on crime, criminals, and traffic violators round the clock.

After the inauguration, Nishant Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner, who is the CEO, Smart City Ltd., apprised the CM about the project and said 60 persons, including 30 operators, 20 police personnel and 10 officials had been deployed on this project to monitor the city. It will establish an intensive framework that is bringing inputs from different departments such as police, fire, Karnal Municipal Corporation (KMC), district administration etc. on one platform, he apprised the CM.

These inputs can be converted into actionable intelligence and disseminated to stakeholders on time. Besides, it is a place which collaborates with all departments of the city using information and communication technology as a backbone. It will process all information and generate insights, which will be helpful in managing incidents across the city and do better planning for the development. It plays the role of decision support system.

The CM was apprised of the project and a live demo of the city surveillance was given by experts. The experts told the CM that it would act as the city’s emergency and disaster management platform as it was integrated with various IT systems of different stakeholders with the objective of enhancing safety, security and providing better public services in the cities. It also helps the police in maintaining law and order.

“I congratulate the residents for this ambitious project as it will ensure more facilities in ensuring good better services,” said the CM.

“It will help the police in checking traffic violation and also keep a vigil on criminals,” said the CM.

On being asked about allegations of corruption in KMC, the CM said that a district vigilance committee, headed by the Additional Deputy Commissioner, had been constituted to deal with all complaints of corruption in government departments. On farmers’ issue, he said dialogues were going on and hopefully it would be resolved soon.

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