Bhubaneswar, Feb 7: A delegation of 16 senior officers from National Defence College (NDC), New Delhi under their tour “Socio-political study of India’’ visited the command and control centre or Bhubaneswar Operations Centre of the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL). The delegation also learnt various programmes undertaken by BSCL.

Special Secretary Urban Development Department Prem Kumar Jha, who is also the Mission Director of Smart Cities under Odisha Government, chaired a meeting in which the visiting delegation was briefed about the various projects of BSCL by the senior officials concerned.

Under the “Socio-political study of India’’ the delegations from NDC are touring both rural and urban India to gain knowledge on the socio-political aspects of the people from different regions. The 16 officers’ team from NDC also included four Defence officials from France, Indonesia, Uganda and Nepal. The other 12 senior officials from the visiting team included officials from Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, Police, Indian Administrative Service and Indian Administrative and Allied Services.