Chandigarh, July 9 -- A high-level delegation from the French development agency Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) held a crucial meeting with officials of the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) on Tuesday to discuss the city's 24x7 Pan-City Water Supply Project. During the meeting, MC officials raised several queries, particularly about the project's funding structure and overall implementation viability, before taking the final call on rolling it out across the city.

The AFD team visited the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) and the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Centre to assess the technological backbone and project preparedness. Municipal commissioner Amit Kumar and chief engineer Sanjay Arora g...