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Bhubaneswar: As many as 23 IAS probationers from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie during their tour to the City, visited the office of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) on Wednesday.
Apart from interacting with BSCL officials on the various projects and their progress, they also went inside the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC), where the command control centre for the city has started operation recently.
These officers were part of the 120th Induction Training Programme for State Civil Services officers, promoted to the IAS cadre at LBSNAA, from July 2 to August 12.
BSCL General Manager (Operations) Bijay Kumar Swain briefed the probationers about the various Smart City projects and their progress.
Inside the BOC the IAS probationers were briefed about how the video wall will be used to monitor various city operations so that there would be a 24X7 surveillance mechanism in place, once the integrated command and control centre – the biggest among all cities across India – becomes fully operational.
Notably, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had inaugurated the BOC on July 9. It is all set to keep an eye on several functions like traffic management, incident management, city surveillance, emergency services and disaster management.
The state-of-the-art centre includes a massive video wall of more than 80-foot length (with 16 x 2 configuration of 70 inch panels) and will be used to monitor the large volume of close circuit television (CCTV) footage and highly sophisticated sensor data. It will provide a digital platform for integrating multiple city sub-systems of parking, public transport, and Common Payment Card along with Effective Emergency Response Management for the city.
Once fully operational, this will greatly improve the speed and efficiency of service delivery by the city through proper inter-agency coordination with police, fire services and health facilities.
The probationers were also briefed about all major components of the Smart City Proposal undertaken by BSCL, i.e. projects coming under the Area Based Development and those across the city (Pan City Proposal) by Technology officer Biswakalyan Nayak.
They were given a presentation on Smart Janpath, Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System, Common Payment Card (PPP Project), Solar City Roof Top, Saheed Nagar and Raj Mahal multi-level car parking, Social Equity Centre, Integrated Public services centre, Smart Parks, Satya Nagar Institutional Core and Making Bhubaneswar Socially Smart.
The IAS probationer team also visited World Heritage Site, the Sun Temple of Konark.
Ms Kalinga