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NEWS

Road Safety BSNL-Nokia to launch
awareness first smart pole

n an attempt to increase innish telecom gear-maker Nokia
the road safety awareness launched its first smart pole
Iwithin the delivery partners, Fdeployed at the state-owned
food delivery company, Zomato Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL)
collaborated with the Cyberabad premise in March.
Traffic Training Institute during
National Safety Week. Zomato Nokia’s smart pole initiative is a
has successfully trained over part of its intelligent infrastructure
600 delivery partners, so far. transformation program. The equipment
Every delivery partner was would integrate poles with smart LED
extensively trained on the lighting systems, CCTV cameras, digital
traffic rules & regulations, and billboards and environmental sensors
accident prevention measures. that could also have a revenue potential
Zomato has the largest last for the operator.
mile delivery fleet of 1.5 lakh As per alliance, the telecom
registered partners across 170+ technology vendor will provide its
cities. Through initiatives like compact and deployable solutions
Zomato Rider University, the using LTE technology for mission-critical
company focuses on providing communications to assist the service
continuous digital and road
safety training. provider in its disaster relief efforts.

Public charging stations for EVs in Delhi

ew Delhi will get vehicles to address the people have access to
131 public charging concerns of potential recharging facilities in their
Nstations for electric buyers and to ensure that vicinity. According to the
plan approved by the power
ministry and the Delhi
government such facilities
will be set up at Metro
stations, CNG stations,
petrol pumps and fuel
stations. One each will be
set up in the parking area of
T-3 at IGI Airport and Jamia
Millia.
The Centre, in consultation
with municipal authorities
and the Delhi government,
has decided that the three
municipal corporations
and Delhi Transco Ltd will
be the nodal agencies for
their respective areas. The
facilities will be operated
by the four nodal agencies
for three years and they will
charge a fee from users.

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