Punjab Engineering Student Did The Study: 

The fourth year BE student at Punjab Engineering College did a study and found some of the remote sensing satellite images. These images were showing that Open Land Area In Chandigarh is declining because of the construction of roads and buildings and their percentage has increased more than 50 percent over the last 15 years. In this study, there is the comparison of four satellite images of Chandigarh that were taken in 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015. These images were differentiated with the help of software and then they studied various geographical aspects from these images. PEC civil engineer Professor Amrit Singh Sandhu, who guided the study, says that the Chandigarh Administration should stop increasing encroachments in the city and give few project approvals.

What Changes Occurred Here In 15 years:

• After 2000 lots of construction occurred here and this led to the decline in the open area. In 2000 the open area in the city was 32% but now only 8% is left.
• Many housing projects were completed in this time and most of the construction of housing projects has done in the southern sectors of 48, 51 and 63.
• To transform the Chandigarh new shopping complexes constructed here in the industrial area.
• The construction of a new ISBT in Sector 43 for the urbanisation of the city but this led to declining open area in City.
• According to the Prof. Amrit Singh Sandhu, Chandigarh Administration should not give approvals to development projects easily because this thing can create water and electricity shortage in the future.

What Are The Experts View:

According to the former architect of Chandigarh Sumit Kaur, there is no threat and there is no need to take any strict action. She also added that there is a master plan and they also assured that the city will not face a crisis of any kind until 2031. This plan will help to avoid any type of problems related to electricity and water in City Beautiful. She said that Administration is concerned about the city and they are approving only those projects that can increase the beauty and greenery of the city. She also adds that it is mandatory to fit solar pannels on all houses and building rooftops, occupying plots larger than 500 yards.

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This Centre will be located in Punjab Engineering College, Sector 12 Chandigarh. The project to develop this Innovation Centre was proposed by the students of PEC and it has been approved by the Administrator V.P. Singh Badhnaur.

Different Companies will be invited to this Innovation Centre from the world to display to their technology. The Companies will be provided with particular free space and Wifi facility to display their technology which will be included in the Smart City Projects. People would visit this Innovation centre and know how the technology works. The residents will be able to view the latest technology at their vicinity, they don’t have travel to know about the latest technology. For example: If smart Lighting project has to be started or any new public transport facilities are to be launched. The centre will contact the companies dealing with such fields to display the technology.

After six months this amazingly unique Smart City Innovation centre would be ready.According to Home Secretary Anurag Aggarwal, this will be the first Smart City Innovation Centre where all the latest technology will be displayed. This will be a boon for other countries as well and they could also come to visit in Technology Park.

The city is about to develop into Smart City as Smart LED’s are being introduced at every roads, markets and park. Out of all the poles, approximately 400 Poles will be Smart having CCTV cameras, Wifi, Mobile signals and many more facilities. These smart LED”s will prevent robbery, eve teasing and other criminal issues. The Companies participating in this project will also be allowed to display their technology at the Innovation Centre.

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