Home department gives Rs 101 crore for Safe & Smart City project

  • | Thursday | 22nd February, 2018

NAGPUR: In a big boost to Rs 520 crore Nagpur Safe and Smart City project, the home department has released Rs101.05 crore to the directorate of information technology (DIT). The project is related to Smart City solutions and to benefit NMC and city police. Of total Rs520 crore project , the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s special purpose vehicle Smart Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited (NSSCDCL) was supposed to contribute Rs103 crore and already released to DIT. Thus, home department has released funds of Rs111.05 crore from its share of Rs173.89 crore as of now.The home department issued a notification on Wednesday to release funds to DIT under the project. But the home department released Rs110.05 crore till date after an addition of latest funds on the request of DIT.The DIT is executing the project through L&T Limited.

NAGPUR: In a big boost to Rs 520 crore Nagpur Safe and Smart City project, the home department has released Rs101.05 crore to the directorate of information technology (DIT). Thus, home department has released funds of Rs111.05 crore from its share of Rs173.89 crore as of now.The home department issued a notification on Wednesday to release funds to DIT under the project. Of total Rs520 crore project , the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s special purpose vehicle Smart Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited (NSSCDCL) was supposed to contribute Rs103 crore and already released to DIT. The home department on behalf of city police was supposed to release funds of Rs173.89 crore in instalments in five years between 2016-17 and 2022-23. But the home department released Rs110.05 crore till date after an addition of latest funds on the request of DIT.The DIT is executing the project through L&T Limited. The project is related to Smart City solutions and to benefit NMC and city police. Therefore, the NMC and city police had to contribute. Remaining amount will come from DIT that will be given by the state government.Under the project, the DIT is installing 3,841 CCTVs at 700 locations, optical fibre cable of 1,200km, 10 mobile surveillance vehicles (MVS), 10 drones, 100 Smart Kiosks with 327 services, smart solutions in 239 city buses, public announcement systems at 50 locations, WiFi access points at 790 locations, Smart Strip on WHC road between Khamla square and Japanese garden square etc. Around 80% works stand completed as on date.

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