The first executive committee meeting of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) was held on Friday under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal.
During the meeting, several major projects were discussed including the connectivity of 60 thousand CCTV cameras across the city. These cameras will be connected to the Integrated command and control centre through an optical fibre backbone. The CM also flagged off 10 electric vehicles and the same were handed over to bureaucrats.
In the meeting, the GMDA’S plan for Metro extension line to connect HUDA City Centre with Sector 21 Dwarka was also discussed. Earlier the project feasibility report was submitted to the Haryana government in October last year by the DMRC.
Apart from this, a proposal to set up multi-modal transit centres (MMTC) at Gurugram’s Kherki Daula area for smooth traffic of vehicles was also discussed in the meeting. Authority is in the process of preparing a project for the city which includes Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), CCTV Surveillance System integrated with intelligent traffic systems and various other Smart City applications, an official said.
Moreover, GMDA will install 1926 CCTV cameras on 358 locations across the city. The development authority has started installing CCTV cameras and also to set up the Integrated Command and Control Centre. It expects that in a year, it will set up an optical fibre backbone network within the GMDA boundaries, he said.