Why in news?

• It is an initiative by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and has been recently launched in Chandigarh.
• ICCC acts as the “nerve center” for operations management, day-to-day exception handing and disaster management.
• Smart Cities project provides for developing 100 citizen-friendly and self-sustainable urban settlements, includes setting up ICCCs for each city as a vital step.
• A unique feature is real time data visualisation which is then analysed by for the administration to take corrective steps. For eg. about spread of a particular disease in an area.