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Panjim has been turned into ghost city of Goa

The contractors who have been appointed by the local MLA and who have been assigned with the job of turning Panjim into a smart city by the Goa government have currently turned the same into a dust pollution spreading city of Goa by vandalising/digging/damaging all the interior roads of the city in the name of laying some underground cables, water/drainage pipelines, chambers, etc.

The monsoons are fast approaching and  most people do not even know how the city of Panaji will actually resemble after a few sudden pre-monsoon showers from April to May and after seeing the ongoing slow-motion work of all the third-graded appointed contractors of the much hyped 'smart city project' in Goa.

I think that if the Goa government is really serious in turning Panaji into a world-class smart city in future then it should immediately appoint some modern hi-fi professionals i.e. architects, engineers etc from around the world to carry on with that job instead of allowing some unprofessional contractors having absolutely no knowledge of modern architecture/engineering to continuously keep vandalising almost every road/part of the city.





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AI traffic management is intelligent money making

SRIDHAR D IYER, Caranzalem
Published Mar 16, 2023, 8:32 PM IST
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An artificial intelligence (AI) traffic signal management has been installed at Merces junction. As per reports, the system costs Rs 40 lakhs and set up by a Bengaluru-based company can observe, capture and e-challan traffic offenders. The revenue generated through fines will be shared in a ratio of 30 (government):70 (company). A dummy run for a month ‘caught’ 3,000 violators. The government plans to have 15 more of such AI systems in different parts of Goa. 16 systems…

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