Experts challenge NDMC 'smart' city plan
If you go by NDMC's smart city concept note, its goal is to achieve WHO's air quality standard of 10 micrograms per cubic metre for PM 2.5 by 2025. It also aims to reduce per capita automobile count to
If you go by NDMC's smart city concept note, its goal is to achieve WHO's air quality standard of 10 micrograms per cubic metre for PM 2.5 by 2025. It also aims to reduce per capita automobile count to
As per the standards of draft concept note on smart city scheme, released by the Union ministry of urban development only Jaipur is fit enough to become a smart city . Among the conditions needed to select
The Modi government’s vision of creating 100 smart cities will require an investment of over USD 150 billion over the next few years with private sector being a significant contributor, says a report by
Lucknow Municipal Corporation has gone a step ahead in mapping the Smart City proposal for Lucknow by including smart features like emphasis on use of recycled water for cleaning, installing LED lights
SMC inks MoU with Solar Energy Corporation of India Aiming to generate solar power through rooftops of buildings in Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) limits, the civic body Monday inked an MoU with
The 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an ambitious and comprehensive framework that opens new perspectives for policymaking and international cooperation. Its integrated
Policy think tank formed by PM Modi has suggested ways to execute the project better Bengaluru, Kolkata miss Smart City list Within days of the government announcing 98 shortlisted names for smart
The city of Jaipur is cloning itself. Not a brick and mortar clone, but a virtual one — built to scale and faithfully representing all the urban and architectural features of the real city. It’s a first
Urbanization in India is expected to peak in 2050. The Smart Cities Mission was launched in 2015 to transform and improve livability in urban areas in the country. Rapid urbanization puts tremendous stress
KOCHI: The digital energy cluster, coming up as part of SmartCity Kochi, will be the first-of-its-kind in India as it will help harness affordable energy for generations. The cluster will comprise industries
KOCHI: Last week chief minister Oommen Chandy said that Kochi has a private SmartCity venture and the city will turn smart with Centre's aid. "The city grabbed the limelight as the fourth-cleanest city
Despite the Modi government’s pitch for Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan, Make in India campaign, Smart Cities Project, Digital India Campaign and the Zero Effect Zero Defect policy (leaving zero effect on the
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he wants to focus not only on smart cities but also smart villages and create 50 such in 2016. Maharashtra has developed its first smart village with the
KOCHI: Despite all the hype over the future ‘Smart City’, Kochi - a ‘Metro-in-the-making’ - hides an invisible population. They are the landless and the homeless who are living a life of their own on the
Diversifying its `Bhuvan' (geospatial platform) application service which can be a key tool to implement India's smart city programmes, the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) has tied up with the
Cities accommodate nearly 31% of India's current population and contribute 63% of GDP (Census 2011). Urban areas are expected to house 40% of India's population and contribute 75% of India's GDP by 2030.
Nagpur: If the cash-strapped Nagpur Municipal Corporation wants the state's second capital to be among the 100 smart cities in the country, it will have to shell out Rs 50 crore per annum besides spending
KOLKATA: Heads of 59 municipalities attended a meeting on Tuesday when they were briefed about the central guidelines for a smart city before they join the competition to be enlisted in the scheme.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the smart city project in New Delhi recently, the Municipal Corporation of Jalandhar (MCJ) has geared up to get the city included in the project. The MCJ
CHENNAI: A 5kW solar panel atop Chennai Corporation Middle School at Basin Bridge has started functioning. The solar panel set up at a cost of Rs 3.74 lakh produces 20 units of electricity per day.