The RFID chip has been installed in 1,12,669 properties in Belagavi city. RFID tags were installed at the buildings for effective door to door garbage collection. When garbage collector collects the garbage from houses he will scan the RFID chip that data will be shared to Intelligent Command and Control Centre. District Collector MG Hiremath instructed Belagavi Corporation officials to use a tag reader while collecting garbage.

He was speaking at a coordination meeting on Tuesday (Sept. 14) at the state-of-the-art Integrated Command and Control Center at Visveshwaraiah Nagar which was built under the Smart City Project.

Garbage collection from the house and garbage sorting must be done regularly. In order to implement this, more than 300 R.F.I.D. tag readers have been distributed to Corporation from Smart City to scan the tags. He also requested citizens to make use of ‘My Belagavi’ citizen app which has many features and citizens can lodge complaints or various departmental grievances for the quick response.

Police department, Transport department, corporation, Health department and Fire departments should take advantage of the sophisticated facilities at the Command Center to provide better services to the citizens, Dc M.G. Hiremath said.

Facilities will be handed over to all concerned departments after the completion of all Smart City project. He said all departments should take advantage of the command center in coordination with each other.

Dr Praveen Bagewadi, Managing Director of Belagavi Smart City, speaking at the meeting, explained that most of the amenities, including the park, pools, hospital buildings and digital boards developed under the Smart City project have been handed over to the City corporation and related departments. He added that the sophisticated facilities available at the Integrated Command and Control Center, developed under the Smart City Plan, will provide better services to the public, including the police, transport, corporation, health and other departments.

Dr Praveen Bagewadi said that concerned departments can take advantage of this and provide quality services to the citizens quickly.

Dr Vikram Amathe, Deputy Police commissioner of Belgaum, said that in the course of the criminal case, some services of the Command Center for Traffic Violence and Traffic Problems were modified to facilitate the police department. He added that CCTV footage needs to be integrated with the RTO and Police Department’s current surveillance system to enable them to monitor vehicles.

Dr Vikram Amathe said that there is a separate control room for 112 (ERS) to facilitate emergency police service and that technicians should work in tandem with both centers to provide this service more quickly.

Sneha PV, Deputy Police Commissioner of Crime and Traffic added that the facilities at the command center will be used in conjunction with some of the existing systems for traffic control and crime detection. She suggested making some modifications to make MobileApp citizen friendly.

Commissioner Dr Rudresh Ghali said measures would be taken to ensure adequate and efficient use of the system handed over to the city corporation