Tag: smart city

Will probe Smart City project: HP Minister

Congress will probe wastage of public funds in the name of Smart City: Public Works Department Minister Vikramaditya Singh.

May 1, 2023

Smart cities must have school safety zones

The Smart City Mission is all set to expand to 4,000 cities in the next two years.

October 7, 2021

HP Guv calls for developing satellite town near Shimla

The Governor said that priority should be given to the projects of information technology, tourism, education, health and road widening in Shimla city under the Smart City Project

August 20, 2020

How India’s ‘Smart Cities’ are fighting against COVID-19

Governments and local authorities across the globe are using technologies, sensors and all other devices.

April 15, 2020

Govt plans to set up Asansol as model city

Solid waste management to get special emphasis; houses to get blue, green dustbins.

July 11, 2019

Provide safety equipment to sanitation workers: NSKC chief to HP govt

He directed that sucking and jetting machines should be made available in all Municipal Committees of the state to clean the septic tanks and ensure door-to-door garbage collection throughout the state.

June 13, 2019

Smart City, e-governance focus of NDMC budget 2019-20

The total receipt of the NDMC budget estimates (BE) for 2019-20 are Rs 4,172.34 crores against Rs 3,954.51 crores provide in the revised estimates (RE).

January 15, 2019

Make in Odisha Conclave 2018 opens to public

The Expo focuses on showcasing industrial prowess, with most industries operating in the state displaying their success stories. Major organisations like Adani Group, Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Limited, Britannia Industries Limited, Emami Paper Mills Ltd. and many others participated.

November 12, 2018

CM Patnaik opens state of art Bhubaneswar Operations Centre with 2 other projects

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday inaugurated the state of-the art Bhubaneswar Operations Centre (BOC), besides two other projects and laid the foundation stone for another two. The ultra modern command and control centre for the city and the new Smart City Office was inaugurated and Smart Parks dedicated to the people while City wide...

July 10, 2018

Smart city to get new aluminium museum

AAI to set up museum to spread awareness on metals history, usage: NALCO CMD

May 19, 2018

Smart city Dharamshala to have 228 CCTV cameras

Chief Minister, Jai Ram Thakur said that Rs 2,100 crore smart city project for Dharamshala would not only give a facelift to the town but also provide world standard basic amenities to the residents as well as tourists. Reviewing the progress of smart city project of Dharamshala, he said that augmentation and automation at source...

May 19, 2018

Urban infrastructure investment: myth and reality

A recent consultation in Ahmedabad reinforced the scale of need for investment in urban infrastructure. But the big question, notes Rajesh Tandon, is whether Indian cities are ready and able to utilise such large investments.

May 17, 2018

Khattar for spraying smart city roads with treated water

Haryana Chief Minister (CM), Manohar Lal Khattar has directed the officers to work on the modalities for spraying roads of the smart cities with the treated water of Sewerage Plants. Presiding over a meeting to review the progress of smart cites of Faridabad, Karnal and Gurugram on Thursday, the CM said this spraying roads with...

April 27, 2018

Taking cleanliness drive from Himalayas to smart city

After carrying out cleanliness drive on trekking trails in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, these cleanliness volunteers have moved to the smart city Shimla with their mission. The drive which is being carried on every Sunday since the start of April by Healing Himalayas Foundation, an NGO, is evoking a good response from the locals,...

April 18, 2018

Bhubaneswar scores 4.6 in India City Systems ranking

A study of India City Systems by Bengaluru-based Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship has ranked Bhubaneswar with a score of 4.6, just below Pune which topped the ranking. The study, which evaluates quality of governance in cities, in its 2017 edition covered 23 major cities in India across 20 states based on 89 questions. The study...

March 16, 2018

Auroville as First Smart City

On 28 February 1968, a few thousand people gathered on a barren plateau of red laterite, some ten kilometers north of Pondicherry, the former French establishment. It was a special moment for those present; it was the birth of a ‘Dream’ which had rarely been attempted in the past; to bring people from different countries,...

February 28, 2018

Rebuke reinforced

Just days after the apex court’s sharp criticism of one aspect of the functioning (non-functioning?) of the Delhi Development Authority, Parliament’s attention has been drawn to another reflection of that agency’s incompetence. As many as 6500 persons allotted flats last year have “surrendered” them, the Lok Sabha has been informed. While the government claimed there...

February 9, 2018