RailTel bags ₹170 cr order for Puducherry smart city project: Indian Railway’s wholly owned subsidiary, RailTel Corporation of India Ltd has received an order worth ₹170.11 crores from the Puducherry government.
Agenda: To design, develop, supply, install, test, commission, and operations, and maintenance of integrated command control centre (ICCC) and other associated activities for the smart city.
January 2023 Current Affairs Quiz
The contract is for five years and will be completed in 10 months. The Smart Cities Mission was launched by PM Modi in 2015. The project’s other components include data center disaster recovery, on street parking management, intelligent traffic management system, development of an online/mobile platform to assist tourists and visitors, city level application and smart dashboard, smart kiosks, smart poles with CCTV, Wi-Fi, air quality monitoring, and digital billboard.
“The Smart Cities Mission (SCM) launched by Government of India is a very ambitious program with the objective to ensure people gain access to core infrastructure, a clean and sustainable environment, and a decent quality of life through the application of smart solutions,” said Sanjai Kumar, chairman and managing director, RailTel. “The Puducherry order is an important step for RailTel to enter this business segment which is close to our core competence,” he added. It has been noted that several cities where the ICCC is implemented are becoming cleaner due to monitoring of cleaning work through CCTV cameras leading to a reduction in instances of garbage throwing, littering, urination in public, and nighttime burning of garbage etc.