archiveMarch 2017

Smart Cities

COUNCIL TO TAKE UP SMART CITY PROPOSAL TODAY

Proposal by iDeCK tries to strike a balance between modernising infrastructure while preserving heritage. The city Corporation’s draft Smart City proposal with projects worth Rs.1,505 crore will come up for the council’s approval on Friday. The proposal prepared by Bengaluru-based consultancy Infrastructure Development Corporation (Karnataka) Limited (iDeCK) tries to strike a balance between modernising the city’s infrastructure while preserving its heritage structures. The proposals come under two broad heads — Area-based development and Pan city development — with projects under the former getting a bulk of the funds. Some of the major projects...
Smart Cities

‘DIGITAL INDIA INITIATIVES PLAYING MAJOR ROLE IN SMART CITIES MISSION’

Digital India initiatives and schemes by the government like Aadhaar, digital lockers and computerisation of land records, are gaining momentum in the country and playing a major role in the smart cities mission, said P.P. Chaudhary, Minister of State, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. He was speaking at the inaugural session of the 4th edition of the Smart Cities Summit here. China is the country partner at the summit. Aiming to take the government’s smart cities initiative to the next level, over 1,500 global and national policymakers, financiers and...