Citizens Engagement in Dharamshala
Citizen participation and engagement is central to the smart city proposal development process in Dharamshala. The present Municipal Council has a population of approximately 23,000 persons and it is the endeavor of MC Dharamshala to integrate each of these ‘voices’. Extensive engagement and consultations were conducted with the different stakeholder groups in the city and the public at large through multiple channels and platforms for the purpose. These included:
- Smart City discussion forum on MC Dharamshala website
- Social media – Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
- Call for ideas through Logo design, branding and essay competitions
- Information kiosks at cultural and social events in the city
- Regular public meetings and Community level focused group discussions,
- Stakeholder workshops and meetings with various public agencies, city councilors, NGOs, local experts, the academia, hotelier and trade associations, taxi unions among others.
The engagement process also witnessed extensive enthusiasm and participation on the part of the citizens. The people of Dharamshala came up with written suggestions and detailed proposals for realizing the Smart City Vision. Numerous suggestions were received everyday throughout the proposal preparation process on the Smart City discussion forum of MC Dharamshala. In addition to the official Facebook page, the citizens voluntarily came up with a ‘Dharamshala Smart City’ page and community on the social networking site Facebook , which saw extensive activity and discussion by the members on how the city can realize its smart city vision. Competitions were floated for Logo designing and branding of the city. Students and youth contributed to the vision formulation through the essay competition on ‘Mere sapno ka shahar – Dharamshala’. All these activities resulted in more than two hundred ideas and proposals for the city and the Smart City Vision and Proposal for Dharamshala will endeavor to realize these.
Figure: Process of citizen engagement for Dharamshala Smart City Proposal
More than 3,000 members (14% population of the present municipal council) as on 28th October, 2015.
Figure: Snapshots of Citizens Engagement in Dharamshala
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A Step Forward to Smart Neighborhood" with the tagline Discover Spiritually Smart Dharamshala.this place has immense potential for all adventure activities its just that we need to develop a system where these activities can be promoted on the international platform .
public transport needs to be encouraged and people should give up on using their vehicles and go for public transport which will not only decongest but also help in reducing pollution. Walking and cycling activities must be promoted and new tracks should be developed for enthusiasts.
we want smart city as dharamshala becoz main issues here are the lack of parking spaces, narrow roads, absence of alternate and internal roads, incompletion of internals roads and moreover absence of an outer ring road.
we want dharamshala will become smart city.
मॆरा सप्ना कॆ धरम्शला smart city बनॆ.जॊ हुम् लॊग् कि transportation स्य्सॆम् बदल् जऎगा.ELECTRICY AND WATER SUPPLY कि भि शुभिधा मॆलॆगा.
Dharamshala being developed as SMART CITY is good initiative proposals have been prepared with consultation of citizen and focuses on the Citizen need and aspiration.
मॆरा धरम्शला बनॆगा smart city.हुम् लॊगॊ कॊ बॊहॊत् सुबिधा हॊ जऎगा और् हमरा धरम्शला खिल् उत्थॆगा.
I MY DREAM BECOME TRUE WEHN WE WILL SEE OUR DHARAMSHALA AS SMART CITY.
ITS A GOOD TO SEE DHARAMSHALA WILL BECOME A SMART CITY.
There was a time when there was no IT infrastructure development in India and today India is a hub and top preference of worlds best IT companies. Similarly India has no Smart City today but ,I am sure that within next few years the largest democracy of the world will be the key attraction of the countries around the world due to its Maximum number of SMART CITIES .
Heard a lot about Smart cities , finally our Government has implemented it in our country. Hope Indian Cities turnout to be an example for the world by creating maximum number of Smart cities in mere span of next 5years.All the best to my Countrymen.