Latest Articles in public safety
Smart Technology Can Help In Smart Policing
Technology can change the way the police controls crime in a city and can help in its early detection. Deepak Ratan, Inspector General Of Police, Varanasi talks to Manish Arora of BW SmartCities about how by leveraging technology, the state police can prevent and reduce the crime rate in the city. Edited excerpts...
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'UP 100 is now an established platform for providing emergency services of Police'
Policing became smarter in the state of Uttar Pradesh with UP Dial 100, the emergency response management system. The project is jointly implemented by Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Defence Systems to provide integrated emergency services relating to public safety across the State on 24×7 basis. A centralized contact center has been established at Lucknow for receiving all emergency calls directly from across the State, including remote rural areas. The results were encouraging. In about one year of its operation, UP100 provided assistance in more than 42 lakh cases and is currently catering to around 1.2 lakh citizen calls on daily basis. Chahat Jain of BW SmartCities talks to Aditya Mishra, ADG UP-100, about changing police perception in the state.
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Delhi Government Plans to Open 350 Dengue Clinics
Asked if the first fatality reflects on government's level of preparedness, he said, "Our government never claimed that dengue would be wiped out. No government or state can claim so
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SDMC To Install CCTVs In 579 Municipal Schools
A monitoring team will be constituted in every zone and the SDMC officials at the headquarters will supervise security from the control room at the Civic Centre
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Gujarat To Form State Disaster Response Force
All the 1,100 personnel will undergo six weeks of primary training at SRPF campus in Vadodara, the release added
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Mobile App on Lucknow launched
The benefits of the application included, boosting tourism, catering not just to awareness about important government schemes for the public and also offer basic and important details of public and emergency services available
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Mention Aadhaar for filing governance-related grievances: Govt
People can visit public grievance website--www.pgportal.nic.in-- to file their complaints. The grievance can be filed against any government organisation in the country through this portal.
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SAARC nations undertake maiden disaster combat exercise in NCR
In a first, all SAARC countries came together for a massive field training exercise on combating an earthquake - like disaster
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Govt pursuing paradigm shift in disaster mngmnt: Home Minister
A paradigm shift in disaster management from a relief centric approach to a holistic one, encompassing preparedness, prevention, mitigation and risk reduction, is being initiated, says the Union Home Minister
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Playing it Smart
Foreign investors and the government have a common objective – to develop strong and sustainable islands of excellence that are also safe and viable investments, says Ashok Bajpai - MD, G4S
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