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The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) intends to follow Artificial Intelligence to amended section medication successful the city, Mayor R. Priya said astatine the GCC Budget league for FY 2026-27 held astatine the Ripon Buildings connected Wednesday. This was among the 90 announcements made astatine the session.
Another cardinal announcement was a enactment car astatine the Marina nether the PPP mode, based connected the connection of DMK councillor from Anna Nagar T.V. Shemmozhi. The project, which volition link the Light House to erstwhile Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai’s memorial is estimated astatine ₹78 crore.
The GCC volition found an Urban Data Observatory utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) arsenic portion of a ₹5-crore task to amended section medication and work transportation by analysing city-wide information for amended decision-making, Ms. Priya said. The civic assemblage allocated ₹2 crore for a drone-based AI monitoring strategy to behaviour aerial surveys for spot taxation appraisal and to place unauthorised constructions crossed the city, she added.
Further, ₹1 crore would beryllium spent connected AI bundle and instrumentality to supply automated investigation of reports from 7 mobile X-ray machines crossed 15 wellness centres, with 1 centre located successful each aesculapian district, she said.
In the acquisition sector, she said impermanent carnal acquisition teachers would beryllium appointed successful 180 schools with a spot of implicit 100 students, with an allocation of ₹3.65 crore. To supply intelligence enactment for adolescents, 17 counsellors would beryllium appointed to 46 precocious schools connected a consolidated wage ground for 10 months, she said.
Renovation and colour coding of 250 schools astatine ₹20 crore, higher acquisition coaching for Class 12 students astatine ₹6 crore, ‘Smart Classroom’ facilities for superior and mediate schools astatine ₹10.22 crore, electrical attraction successful 417 schools astatine ₹15 crore, reconstruction and further classrooms astatine ₹40 crore, and yoga and self-defence grooming organisation of dictionaries, proviso of furnishings and footwear racks, procurement of 11 buses, constitution of a Modern Science Centre, enlargement of peculiar schools to 14 zones, and span courses for migrant children successful 3 schools were announced.
She besides announced a ₹1-crore task to procure 50,000 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) DNA and Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) kits for cervical crab screening crossed 360 wellness centres, including 140 Urban Primary Health Centres, 19 Urban Community Health Centres, 200 Health and Wellness Centres, and the Communicable Diseases Hospital. The samples volition beryllium tested astatine the hospital’s RTPCR laboratory to guarantee aboriginal detection of the virus.
To tackle the upcoming summer, GCC volition supply buttermilk to sanitary workers, she said.
Infra improvements
Small-scale biogas plants volition beryllium acceptable up astatine 49 integrated kitchens done a backstage enactment oregon an NGO.
Inclusive parks for children with disabilities volition beryllium developed astatine 5 locations for ₹10 crore, 50 playgrounds volition beryllium upgraded for ₹20 crore, and 200 parks volition beryllium scientifically renovated successful the archetypal signifier astatine ₹60 crore.
Sponge parkland systems volition beryllium installed successful 25 parks for ₹5 crore, rainwater harvesting structures successful 200 parks for ₹20 crore, and ECO BLOC-based retention tanks astatine 5 large grounds for ₹25 crore. A Green Chennai Scheme volition beryllium launched with ₹10 crore allocation.
Other announcements see electrical conveyance charging stations crossed the city, a Smart Parking strategy astatine 25 locations for ₹2 crore, and ₹725.06 crore for autobus way roads and modernisation of autobus stands.
Transit hubs volition beryllium upgraded for multi-modal integration and Safe Routes to Schools volition beryllium developed. ₹85.03 crore has been allocated for the Blue Beach inaugural and ₹48 lakh for eco-restoration of Nolambur Lake.
Escalators volition beryllium installed astatine subways and skywalks, a caller span connecting Ennore High Road and Manali High Road volition beryllium built astatine ₹40 crore, and 2,850 galvanised compactor bins volition beryllium procured for ₹12 crore successful Tondiarpet, Ambattur and Anna Nagar Zones.
Further integer upgrades see the improvement of a ‘New Chennai Mobile App’ astatine ₹25 lakh and a WhatsApp-based automatic reminder strategy for taxation and licence renewals.
