Date 3 October 2015 | Location Indore, India | |
Organised by Malini Laxmansingh Gaur (Mayor, Indore)
Indore Municipal Corporation Website www.smartcityindore.org | ||
Smart City Indore is an initiative of Indore Municipal Corporation to engage citizens of Indore in the process to qualify the city of Indore in the first round of Smart City Mission launched by Government of India. The project is currently into its second stage.
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Introduction
Smart City Indore is an initiative launched by Indore Municipal Corporation, which includes the participation of residents to qualify Indore to the Smart City Mission launched by the Government of India in first round by taking suggestions and feedback from the residents. Indore is shortlisted by the Ministry of Urban Development as one of the 100 cities under Smart City Mission. The project aims to emphasize development in various sectors including Governance, Transportation, Energy & Waste Management, Water Management, Finance, Health & Education, Infrastructure and Heritage. The website and logo of the Smart City Indore program was launched by city mayor Shrimati Malini Laxmansingh Gaur on 3 October 2015.
On 13 November 2015, the British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that British firms will also be helping and funding the project in order to make Indore (along with Pune and Amravati) a smart city.
Indore successfully qualified in Phase-1 of the Smart Cities Mission, it ranked eleventh on the list released by Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu (MoUD) and is one of the first twenty cities to be developed as Smart City. The Smart City Indore mission was widely appreciated for the efforts put by the government in citizen engagement.
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According to the latest report created by a team of master students and alumni of urban planning at the Ahmedabad-based Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Indore is among the Top Scorers. The cities have been ranked based on the extent to which they have communicated and taken public feedback on their plans through basic online platforms : the urban local body websites, Facebook page and the Union government portal mygov.in. Suggestions from the citizens of Indore are being taken through the official website www.smartcityindore.org, Government of India's online portal MyGov.in, Facebook page and Twitter Handle.