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Here are the Winners of Itanagar’s Smart City Engagement Activities
Our city, Itanagar, faces a wide range of developmental challenges that need to be undertaken right away in order to progress and evolve for the betterment of the city and its residents. India’s Smart Cities Challenge is a major step in this direction, and will definitely help us go a long way in addressing these issues.
Existing Challenges in way of making Naya Raipur a Smart City
The Indian Government has set on a retrofitting and urban renewal mission to modernize 100 mid-sized cities and transform them into satellite towns of large cities. Implemented by the Union Ministry of Urban Development and launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in June 2015, the Smart City Mission is under full swing with active collaboration from the state governments of various cities.
India's Journey to the Stars: 'ISRO sets a World Record by launching 104 Satellites at Once'
Forget the US versus Russia. The real space race is taking place in Asia.” This comment came in from the CNN soon after ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organization) recent launch. Considering the cartoon released by The New York Times after ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission launch in 2014, this news story is indeed a step in the positive direction.
Isha and Making Leaders of Administrators
Recently, the Isha foundation has started one-week leadership training for All-India Service officers. By learning and doing Shambhavi Maha Mudra the inner self can be re-engineered, which in turn leads to making leaders of administrators. In order to understand this let us see how administrators decide and what parts of the brain they use.
CSIR – CCMB Work towards Paper Microfluidics Based Affordable Diagnostics
In its unending quest to bring affordable health care solutions and diagnostic practices CSIR-CCMB is working towards “Affordable clinical diagnostic using paper-based Microfluidics devices using micro and nanotechnological approaches”, such as blood typing, ESR, pregnancy kits (livestocks), cholesterol, low temperature molecular diagnosis (nucleic acid detection) etc. apart from tools such as non-expensive subtract for surface enhance Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
Jeli Kayi joins the quest to make Itanagar a Smart City
Jeli Kayi, the sensational singer of Arunachal Pradesh, has joined in the cause to turn Itanagar into a smart city! As the entire nation already knows, Jeli made it to the top 12 contestants of the popular Reality TV show, Indian Idol 2016. Ever since the show concluded, he has been enjoying huge admiration and support all across India.
Working towards making Itanagar a Smart City
Itanagar is among the list of 11 cities, also including Shimla, Jammu, Bangalore, Patna, Amaravati and Srinagar, which have been given wildcard entries to the Government of India’s smart city mission. While several discussions, competitions, polls have been announced to spark up the Smart City Itanagar initiative on the Government’s website (www.mygov.in), further details will be uploaded on the website in due course to invite public opinions on the proposed projects for the city.
The Idea behind the buzz of Indian #SmartCity
Indian urbanization level amongst comparable countries is one of the lowest in the world. At the same time it is a fact that Indian cities are growing at a rate that outpaces our population. At present 31.75% of India’s population lives in cities and approximately 60% of GDP of the country is derived from the Indian urban economy.
CITIZENS ENGAGEMENT FOR SMART CITY SHIMLA PROPOSAL
As per the Smart City Mission Guidelines citizens engagement is mandatory activity at all level with respect to preparation of smart city challenge stage 2 proposal. The following activities have been taken by MCS/WAPCOS-OASIS:
Announcing Winners for Faridabad Smart City Design Contest
Faridabad Smart City Limited conducted a concept design competition for (1) Street: street connecting old Faridabad railway station to old Faridabad metro station (2) Lake front Development: Bhadkal Lake (3) Parks & water body: Barahi Talab Area.
New DBT paradigm in the Budget
By transferring cash directly to beneficiaries a paradigm shift can be brought about in the development programs of the Government. This will completely change the game of development and bring rapid benefits for the people.
SOLECKSHAW – A solar-electric rickshaw for eco-friendly urban transport
Soleckshaw, a Pedicab, is an optimally-designed, pedal-operated as well motor-assisted, zero-carbon emission urban transport vehicle. The concept of Soleckshaw owes its genesis to the realization that the dignity of human labour needs to be upheld while ensuring sustainable environment and that all devices must be designed to decrease human strain and also greenhouse gas emission.