SCSD – Smart City/Citizen service desks:- Create service desks for issues/requests/queries from citizens and measure agencies on service levels. Publish these results on the web and drive accountability for the individual authorities.

eForums:- Create web enabled forums for 2 way communication between citizens and public authorities at various levels starting with streets/ward.all the way to the city level. Use this to collect and address feedback and for complaints/grievances redressal

Protecting the pavements
Several localities in Chennai including rich and middle class neighborhoods face the problem of encroachment of the pavement by house ramps extending to the pavement / pavements being cordoned off by residents to grow their own private garden. In commercial localities, shops and establishments use it for parking / stocking their wares. Implement an app where we can report such violations. This will help protect the pedestrians and also ensure a healthy walking culture

Chennai Corporation / CMDA – easier access the building plans to proactively report violations
Currently Chennai Corporation / CMDA hosts the approved building plans of all new approvals on their website. But you can search that only using the Building Plan approval number which only the owner knows. Allowing citizens to search for the building plans by street name, all years / specific year, will help citizens become whistle blowers and ensure that they can report violations

Technological ideas to support smart City
1. Traffic Management
2. Automatic City Survilleance
3. Information propagation via Internet of things

IntroduceOnline RTI application for Departments under the Chennai Corporation
Chennai Corporation and other government departments in the city still follow the traditional way of filing an RTI application The citizen does not have the facility to track the status of the application as well. Implement the online RTI application tool which the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has implemented for all Central Government departments and some other state governments. This can help the citizens a lot

Chennai cities common and public places require a clean enhancement. That is free from clutter and every citizen should feel proud to be there. Consider selecting each such places and enhance them. This city has enormous advantage from history, to cultural depth. Clean and tastefully enhanced common places will add lot of value. Improve health and joy of living. However the city grows, people must stay back and love it. I added one small thought, if that helps. Thank you.

Transport – Locate the nearest Parking Lot
Chennai city has a big problem with parking. It would be good if we can help people locate the nearest parking lot by building a mobile app (similar to the OLA app) which will show the nearest parking lot within 100 / 200 / 500 metres from anywhere in the city. For non-smart phones, a simple sms message like “PARKING 600040” should give a list of location of all parking lots in that pin code..

Food – Locate the nearest Amutham – Fair price shop
Chennai city has Amutham or TUCS fair price shops across the city. It would be good if we can help people locate the nearest Amutham by building a mobile app (similar to the OLA app) which will show the nearest Amutham within 100 / 200 / 500 metres from anywhere in the city. For non-smart phones, a simple sms message like “Amutham 600040” should give a list of location of all amuthams in that pin code..

Sanitation – Locate the nearest Dust Bin
Chennai city has a big problem with garbage disposal with garbage strewn all over. It would be good if we can help people locate the nearest Dust bin by building a mobile app (similar to the OLA app) which will show the nearest dust bin within 100 / 200 / 500 metres from anywhere in the city. For non-smart phones, a simple sms message like “DUST BIN 600040” should give a list of location of all dust bins in that pin code..