Bhubaneswar: Claimed to be the country's biggest and the city's first, the Intelligent City Operations and Management Centre, which will enable various government agencies to co-ordinate with each other in a hassle-free manner and ensure quick service delivery to the people, is set to get operational by the end of this month.

Now being called the Bhubaneswar Operation Centre, the authorities will be able to monitor, operate, and control various kinds of services - including traffic management, incident management, surveillance, emergency services and disaster management - from the office. Other modules will also be integrated into the system to provide real-time decision support.

"The construction for the upcoming centre inside BMC Bhawani Mall at Saheed Nagar is nearing completion. We are targeting the make the centre operational by the end of June. It will pose the brain of the city as an array of services will be delivered through this center," said mayor Ananta Narayan Jena.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik also visited the facility on Thursday evening to take stock of the work going on there. "The command control centre will improve the speed and efficiency of service delivery by the city through proper inter-agency co-ordination with police, fire services and health facilities," said managing director of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited Krishan Kumar. Visiting the facility, Naveen tweeted: "Visited upcoming #SmartCity Control Room of @BSCL_BBSR at Saheed Nagar. Satisfied with scale & quality of Command Control Centre that incorporates most advanced tech to ensure safety, security of citizens & provide public services. It will take Smart City Governance to next level."

This state-of-the-art centre is equipped with a massive video wall of more than 100-foot length with 16x2 configuration of 70-inch panels. This will be used to monitor traffic management, large volume of close circuit television footage, highly sophisticated sensor data and emergency services among others.

The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL), special purpose vehicle executing smart city projects here is taking care of this project too. Sources said this centre will provide a digital platform for integrating multiple city sub-systems of traffic management, parking, public transport and common payment card along with effective emergency response.