Drones for Eco Park

Yesterday the HIDCO board met. It approved a proposal to buy two drones to ensure safety and security of tourists in a smart way. It would also be used for better crowd management especially near the entry gates and water edge. The control unit would be located at Control Room of Eco Park Office. The images from the drones would supplement the inputs from CCTVs that will also have their video feeds displayed in the Control Room. Later, we plan to use drones for random checks on busy road crossings, melas, immersion ghats etc.

The drones (DJI Phantom) would have a 12 MP camera, intelligent flight system with live HD view. A demonstration was organised at Eco Park on 26th Jan 2016. Here is a link and a photo:

DJI Phantom-3 Advanced drone on trial at Eco Park

Also click:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9R2_uxGxrE

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Hon'ble Chief Minister inaugurated Kamalgazi flyover yesterday by remote switch from Red Road. In the morning, I inspected it along with CEO KMDA Gulam Ansari. I recalled that I "broke coconut" to mark the actual commencement of work of Kamalgazi flyover with the then CEO KMDA Arup Saha ( See this blog's post dated 15 Jan 2013 at http://principalsecretarysblog.blogspot.in/2013/01/flyover-for-connecting-baruipur.html.

Photo from my vehicle. On Kamalgazi Flyover.

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Clippings:

Millennium Post dt 28 Jan 2016

Times of India dt 28 Jan 2016

Aajkal dt 28 Jan 2016