Sameer Unhale, State Mission Director, Swachh Maharashtra Mission Urban talked about how expertise might be utilised for going through the challenges of public coverage making, public coverage implementation and execution. He stated, “Leveraging technology, we can do many works simultaneously as manual work has own limitations. Technology has helped us in effectively managing services and infrastructure in urban areas.”

Unhale stated that many efforts have been made to undertake expertise into the administration of cities and providers, and infrastructure. “We have seen many initiatives from various types of services, especially in the last two decades,” he stated. He additionally burdened upon the truth that expertise and the potential it has to resolve challenges is what has made city residing extra snug and pleasant.

Talking concerning the Smart Cities Mission, he stated that it’s an indicator of how expertise is getting utilized in numerous components of city residing. “We are coming up with new ideas in this essential space of technology – in urban services, urban management, and smart cities. We have seen the Integrated Command & Control Centres (ICCC), the live data feeds, real-time management of urban services, the SCADA approach which was used for water supply management and is also being proposed for used water management under the various missions of Central and state governments.”

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He concluded by saying that we are able to overcome challenges like local weather change and sustainability, by utilising expertise to its full potential.