Bhubaneswar: The Secretary of Department of Town and Country Planning, Government of Himachal Pradesh, Prabodh Saxena, visited various projects, Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC) and office of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) Monday and appreciated the execution of several projects.
BSCL Chief Executive Officer Vineel Krishna briefed the HP bureaucrat and also accompanied him to the various sites including the Smart Janpath Project near Sishu Bhawan Square and bus queue shelters (BQS) on Janpath.
Saxena took keen interest in the public bicycle sharing (PBS) project `Mo Cycle’ and how the system is integrated into the BQS for last mile connectivity for an effective public transport mechanism. He also saw the red light violation detectors (RLVD) and Wi-Fi installations at Rupali Square.
While the BSCL CEO briefed the senior bureaucrat about the various operational aspects of BOC, the latter asked many questions to know more about the integrations made through the state-of-the-art facility at the BSCL office.
Later, a presentation was also made by BSCL technical experts on various projects under the area-based development, pan-city mode and making the people of the Bhubaneswar Town Centre District through Socially Smart Bhubaneswar project.
Expressing his happiness over the progress of the projects under BSCL, Saxena also added that with his visits years after years he had discovered the Temple City becoming more and more beautiful, smarter and liveable.
Krishna said that with the new IT infrastructure, the city is also developing a 200 km-long optical fibre network so that all types of city-level functioning and monitoring could be integrated with the Bhubaneswar Operations Centre.
The presentation by the BSCL experts also included topics like smart traffic management, parking management, incidence management, smart governance, city-wide Wi-Fi, introduction of PBS, city website Bhubaneswar.Me, two beautiful people’s plazas on Smart Janpath, social equity centre and others.