CAG Report No. 11 of 2025 — Implementation of Smart City Mission, Government of Karnataka

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non-provision of information such as location of CCTV cameras, data
related to bus routes and stations by HDBRTS.
• Integration of Centralised Control and Monitoring System (CCMS) for
LED streetlights also was not carried out as the project for installation of
LED light on PPP basis did not materialise.
• Integration of disaster management systems, environmental sensors,
energy meters, digital display boards and smart health kiosk were yet to
be accomplished.
The State Government stated that the integration of line departments with ICCC
is pending due to, either non- readiness of local system at department level or
due to security reason, line departments are not willing to provide
API/information for further integration with ICCC.
The reply confirms the fact that there is lack of inter-departmental coordination
indicating sub-optimal functioning of ICCC.
Recommendation 5: The State Government should ensure
operationalization of Centralised Command and Control Centre with
integration of all data centres of seven cities to achieve the intended
objectives.
4.7.5 Other Smart Solutions
4.7.5.1 Smart Water supply
The Smart Water component implemented by BSCL aimed to establish an
Information Management System (IMS) for water consumption tracking,
integrating data from bulk flow meters, pressure sensors, and water quality
monitoring tools (PH, turbidity, chlorine sensors). MSI would make provision
for future integration of Water SCADA33 and smart domestic meters in the
Smart Water Management System. MSI installed 28 bulk flow meters, sensors,
and provided 20 Android devices for meter reading and cloud-based database
management for 1,00,000 users. The total expenditure on this was ₹0.63 crore.
Audit observed the following:
➢ Duplication of work: The scope of the 24×7 water supply scheme
implemented by KUIDFC under progress also included installation of
flow meters, PH, turbidity and chlorine content sensors. This resulted
in duplication of work.
➢ Unutilized assets: Despite the BSCL's request (February 2022) for the
Belagavi City Corporation to take over the Android devices and cloud-
based DBMS, these assets remained unused, making ₹0.36 crore
expenditure unfruitful.
➢ SCADA integration: While the Smart Water initiative included future
SCADA integration with the ICCC, the 24×7 water supply project by
33 Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System.