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Gurgaon Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) is set to revolutionize road maintenance in Haryana by implementing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. This groundbreaking initiative will be the first of its kind in the state, promising enhanced efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

In its current state, GMDA manually conducts surveys and estimates for road repairs based on visual inspections. However, this traditional approach has limitations in terms of accuracy and time efficiency. By adopting AI technology, GMDA aims to overcome these challenges and reduce reliance on extensive manpower.

Authorities in the city are considering ‘on-street’ parking spaces on MG Road and Golf Course Road, with the possibility that these facilities would also be connected to the smart parking system.

Both of the stretches are among the busiest in the city, and also house gated condominiums, offices and malls.

Five years on, since the launch of the Smart City Mission, the progress of the Smart City Project in Faridabad is slow as only eight of the total 44 projects awarded under the programme stand completed. Another 13.6 per cent of the works are nearing completion, it is reported.

According to details made available by the authorities of Faridabad Smart City Limited (FSCL), the agency carrying out the mission, eight projects worth Rs 190.66 crore stands completed, while six projects worth Rs 417.79 crore are on the verge of completion. The FSCL has released tenders of another 30 projects worth Rs. 321.59 crore recently, claim its officials. The total cost of the projects has been worth Rs 930.04 crore.

In the recent past, the Panchkula administration has been seen relying on software to improve governance. Taking another step towards e-governance, a touch screen facility was installed on Tuesday at the deputy commissioner’s (DC) office, which contains details of the district’s land records, information on vehicle registration numbers and progress of fresh licence applications.

The company began working on the voter ID card project in 1990 and then moved on to bag several projects from the government. For the state government of Haryana, Vakrangee is handing the Rs 125 crore PDS project that has about 60 lakh beneficiaries. The company has installed 9,300 Points Of Sale (POS) in order to reach out to the maximum number of citizens who live in rural and semi-rural areas.

Age will not be a bar for people who wish to learn about agriculture and related topics. People will be taught in batches of eight in an education centre powered by a 1,800-watt solar panel.

The pace of the Smart City project launched in 2016 has been extremely slow. With only 2.2 per cent of the work declared as complete in the past six years, the majority of the works are still pending, it is learnt. Faridabad was among the 100 cities in the country that were selected for the project in 2015-16. It was launched with the proposed budget of Rs 2,600 crore.

Out of 45 works announced under the project, 44 are lying incomplete, reveal sources in the district administration, claiming that the total period allotted for the completion of the project was five years. The only work that stands completed is the comprehensive mobility plan for the city that cost Rs 1.07 crore, and work on the other schemes is still on, claim sources in the Faridabad Smart City Limited (FSCL). This has also been corroborated in the statement by the Urban Local Bodies Minister, Kamal Gupta, in the recently concluded winter session of the state assembly.

The Faridabad administration will soon launch a doctor-on-call service and mobile application and set up a call centre to provide medical assistance and support to Covid patients in home isolation. It will also be ensured that suspected patients get their Covid test reports within a day.

The directions in this regard were issued by Sanjeev Kaushal, Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management, who today reviewed the situation and measures being taken by the district administration to check the spread of Covid-19.

It has been decided to set up a state innovation council, she said and also proposed to give gold, silver and bronze awards to government employees for suggesting innovation to add efficiency in delivery of services of all kinds.

While advocated for keeping people abreast with new technologies, she stressed the need to improve the quality of services provided by the government.

In June last year, the Haryana government had signed an MOU with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for the issuance of UIDs to all residents of the state.

In Gurgaon, the city administration has entrusted the implementation of the task of unique identification to government school teachers.

This is mainly because local teachers have access to various sections of the society.

From dilapidated, dysfunctional health centres to delivery of advanced health care, Haryana has come a long way in very short time. Encouragement to the use of e-initiatives is giving real time benefit to the people at the grassroots level, changing the very landscape of healthcare services being offered by the Government, writes Priya Yadav of Elets News Network (ENN).

The State is being lauded for its innovative initiatives, being implemented effectively, that are setting an example for other states to follow. The most recent example is the State’s achievement to become the first State in the country to launch High Risk Pregnancy (HRP) Portal. Amneet P Kumar, Secretary, Health and Mission Director, National Health Mission says, “Haryana is an innovative state and has launched several online applications in health including portals that were run by Government of India like Health Management Information System (HMIS) and Reproductive and Child Health (RCH).”

However, after six or so months, the state government called off the project and went back to the old approach. Given that the rest of the country is also moving towards e-payments of welfare programmes, what does Haryana's experience have to tell us about e-payments? Is the new channel better at rooting out corruption? Is it more cost-effective at delivery than the erstwhile model?

Started by Saurav Bhaik and Ankit Sinha in 2013, Gurugram startup Tagbin aims to provide a free solution for governments to help in contact-tracing.

As the first cases of the novel coronavirus started to emerge from Wuhan, China, followed by the WHO declaring the COVID-19 disease as a pandemic, the human race has joined hands in multiple ways to fight it.

Closer home, in India, the emergency is being combatted and contained by a countrywide lockdown, which on Tuesday has been extended to May 3 from April 15.

The state government will set up a common service centre (CSC) training academy in Gurugram where entrepreneurs from villages will be trained to run CSCs in their villages.

The announcement was made on Friday by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar who was visiting the Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Hartron) campus in Udyog Vihar during his two-day Gurugram visit. The CSC training centre will be located on the same campus and will provide support to entrepreneurs in terms of training and skill development, the CM said.

"We have set up new IT labs in 64 colleges and 2,600 schools across Haryana. The IT department of the state has also escalated its efforts and has begun organizing training programmes regularly in government offices all over Haryana," said a state official in Gurgaon.

Comprehensive urban planning must address issues such as land use, transportation, infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and social equity.

Faridabad, a bustling city in the National Capital Region (NCR) of India, has been on a trajectory of rapid urbanization. As it seeks to embrace the future, the concept of a smart city has emerged as a beacon of progress, offering a vision of urban development that is sustainable, technologically advanced, and inclusive. In this article, we explore the potential for Faridabad to transition into a smart city, focusing on the scope of real estate developments, ongoing projects, roadway initiatives, the significance of planning, and the integration of modern architecture.

There are 25 points in the city now where jumping a red light will lead to a challan being issued against the offending vehicle, even if a traffic police marshall is nowhere in sight.

The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and the Gurugram traffic police have installed red light violation detection cameras (RLVD) that monitor these crossings 24/7, and a system now automatically generates the challan and alerts the vehicle owner via text message.

On several occasions they have been found absent after marking presence in the manual register, resulting in lack of cleanliness in many areas.

In the last 18 months, the Karnal police have issued 67,617 traffic challans after violations were captured through CCTV cameras installed at 63 points under the Karnal Smart City project’s Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) initiative. Challans amounting to Rs 9.99 crore have been issued to the violators from November 2021 to April 30 this year.