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UPDATE
Creating NEC and Keltron to work on
awareness on Tirupati Smart City
road safety EC Corporation India by Keltron. Along with this,
Pvt Ltd, in consortium Keltron is also implementing city
he Uttar Pradesh
government has sanctioned Nwith Keltron, is set to collaboration platforms (web
T`7.4 crore for creating road implement and operate pan city portals and mobile apps), smart
safety awareness in the state. Information and Communication water solutions, GIS solutions,
Apart from organising awareness Technology Solutions for and city-specific smart elements
programmes, according to Tirupati Smart City and also City (environmental sensors, variable
Rakesh Kumar Malpani, special Operations Centre (COC). message signboards, public
secretary, the money will be The main feature of the address systems, etc.). The
used for installing reflective project is the Intelligent Traffic order will be executed by the
sign boards, buying body-worn Management System, which Traffic Signals Division of Keltron
cameras, breath analysers, and includes the Adaptive Traffic Communication Complex,
laser speed guns to issue challans Signal Control System developed Thiruvananthapuram.
for speeding violations. In Uttar
Pradesh, 33,711 road accidents
caused 21,792 deaths while The Railways receives
19,813 persons were injured in
2021. In Gautam Budh Nagar, E-locomotives from Alstom
354 people died while 680
people were injured in 897 road s part of its agreement capacity multiplier with its ability
accidents in 2022. with the Indian Railways, to haul heavier loads at faster
AAlstom is supplying 800 speed. This is in tune with the
high-powered double-section Government wanting to reduce
locomotives of 12,000 HP (9 MW) overall logistics cost. As part of the
for Indian Railway freight service. contract, Alstom’s Nagpur Depot
The Alstom WAG12B electric locos will be maintaining 250 WAG12B
are capable of hauling ~6,000
tonne rakes at a top speed of e-loco starting from series 60251.
120 km/hr. The 300th e-loco was The depot is equipped with
flagged off from Alstom’s state-of- Centered Fleet monitoring (CFM)
the-art locomotive maintenance system to remotely monitor the
depot in Nagpur recently. The fleet via Health hub and Train
locomotive is expected to be a Tracer system.
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