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SMART CITY

centre managed by IMC. City mayor habitat, the city administrators and in the process to extract meaningful trends
directly monitored the complaints, who the SPV have drawn specific plans for and alerts for administrators to enable
also made surprise rounds to check reduction of pollution, conservation of their decision making.
waste disposal. Behavioural change environment, promoting cleanliness Integrated Command Control Centres
which was essential element of whole across the city etc., One such notable are proposed as part of the Pan City
story was made possible through active examples include Green Blue Master solution in all most all the Smart City
and sustained involvement by local Plan prepared for the city of Bhopal proposals which shall act as nerve centres
NGOs coupled with heavy penal action with sector specific smart intervention of respective Cities. Ten cities have already
and 24x7 monitoring by a authorities. projects. Some of the projects commissioned, and several others are
Random raids were conducted at wee implemented include decentralized in different stages of completion. ICCC
hours to check if residents were sneaking Waste Water Treatments Systems helps in enhanced quality of services,
garbage on to streets. IMC staff worked (DEWATS), Development of Pedestrian, safety and resilience, inclusiveness in city
24x7 with no weekend leaves. While Cyclist and Transport Infrastructure, operations, faster emergency response
NGOs carried out extensive awareness e-mobility with operating electric buses management, informed decision making
drives via people-to-people contact, for public transport, promoting use of and environmental sustainability. In
naming and shaming, discouraging open solar energy system for public lighting Rajkot, the crime rate has reduced by
defecation through “dabba gangs”. and household needs etc., 18% over the past two quarters as on
Spirit of Competition and Similarly, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) April 2018. There is also an improvement
Mentorship: Starting from selection treatment plant set-up in Jabalpur is in traffic challans issuance, indicating
process to monitoring the progress first-of-its-kind in India where 11.5 MW behavioural change. Monitoring of
to measuring the impact of smart city energy is generated from waste which cleaning work through CCTV camera
projects, the government has embedded can power 18,000 households. This is has led to reduction in instances of
the spirit of competition amongst the resulting in reduction of carbon emissions littering, urination in public, and night
cities and its administrators. Parameters and saving of land by processing of solid time burning of garbage.
were defined, and assessment methods waste by avoiding landfill. In Kakinada, environment sensors have
are designed to bring fairness and been deployed for automatic weather
transparency in the whole process Every city has one or other projects monitoring, air quality monitoring, and
of evaluating the city proposals and identified to make the city an clean and lightning detection. Pune has installed
progress achieved. After three years into green habitat for its citizens. flood sensors at key points around the
planning and implementation, in 2018 Performance Orientation: Across city, which feed data to the SCC, enabling
India Smart Cities Awards were launched different stages of the mission and every timely warning and response mechanism.
with an objective to reward cities, stakeholder have completely assimilated Emergency callboxes have been installed
projects and innovative ideas, promoting the fact that “What cannot be measured at 120 locations to contact the nearest
sustainable development in cities. cannot be managed” and built metrics at police station with just the press of a
While the cities which were performing every stage to measure the progress and button. In Ahmedabad, free Wi-Fi on
were rewarded, a constant endeavour was performance. Dashboards are developed BRTS corridors has increased ridership by
also made to understand the difficulties and implemented at national level to 20,000 in March 2018, compared to Feb
experienced by the city authorities who monitor the progress of overall mission 2018. In Vishakhapatnam, CCTV and GPS
were unable to progress in their mission. and its implementation at city level. enabled buses are being tracked online.
Regular consultation workshops were Technology as an Enabler: Information Bhopal has seen a rise in its property tax
conducted to detect, diagnose, deliver and Communication Technology (ICT) has collections and is also able to track its
and sustain the mission objectives. While become the backbone for almost all the transport services online.
cities such as Surat, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Smart Cities. Everything, from governance Institutional Strengthening: One
Indore, Delhi etc., were rewarded for to public transport, water distribution and of the key shifts is also the need for
their successful projects, cities in North waste-disposal systems are using make use a competent city management team
East which were unable to kick-start the of technology for efficient use of resources capable of delivering the municipal
process are being extended technical and bring about social, economic and services through continuous learning. One
assistance to design and develop projects. environmental improvements. Smarter such unique initiative is Bhubaneshwar
Clean and Green Focus: and newer products are now finding large Urban Knowledge Centre (BUKC) which
Conventionally since days urban centres applications and cities are now working is designed to be a common platform
due to lack of adequate infrastructure towards integrated frameworks to improve between four major city authorities i.e.
and focus on sustainability, remain service efficiency and delivery. Latest smart city SPV, Municipal Corporation,
major contributors to the environmental technologies such as AI, Data Analytics Urban Development Authority and City
degradation, poor sanitation. With an and Machine learning are going to pay a Transport Services Company which
objective of making their cities a living key role in fusing the large data generated provides knowledge-based support and

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