Citizens Consultation for the Smart Cities Mission
On 25 June 2015, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched the Smart Cities Mission to enable the holistic development of Indian cities. This bold new initiative under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) aims to drive economic growth and improve the quality of life of people by enabling local development and harnessing technology as a means to create smart outcomes for citizens. According to MoUD, the core elements of a Smart City include: adequate water and electricity supply, suitable sanitation and solid waste management, efficient public transportation, affordable housing, robust IT connectivity and digitalization, e-governance with citizen participation, sustainable environment, and safety and security of citizens with health and education for all. These objectives are proposed to be attained through a judicious mix of retrofitting, redevelopment and greenfield development.
Citizen consultation is an important pillar of the first phase of the Smart Cities Mission. The Ministry encouraged local governments to engage citizens as they worked on their city’s Smart City Proposal, and recommended MyGov as the core platform for citizen consultation. Municipal governments supplemented their online MyGov activities with meetings, discussions, and other public interactions in their respective cities.
MyGov facilitated citizen consultation for the Smart Cities Mission in two stages. During the first round, it offered cities a range of citizen consultation methodologies, such as discussion forums, tasks, online polls, public talks, and blogs. These tools served as a catalyst for citizens to participate in the Smart Cities Mission and the competition, also known as the India Smart Cities Challenge, and offer suggestions for the development of their city.
During the second round of the Smart Cities Mission, municipal authorities from the shortlisted cities used MyGov to collect suggestions from citizens on their vision for a Smart City to incorporate these into draft proposals. Of the 98 cities, 57 put the draft proposals online for further comments and inputs from the public. Overall, the proposals received a total of 1,42,895 comments.
The 98 cities adopted a range of measures to encourage citizen engagement. Municipalities reached out to young citizens by visiting schools and colleges to educate them about the Mission. Municipal corporations used popular social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter to spread awareness about the mission. Still others created dedicated websites with detailed updates on progress. SMS campaigns, voice message campaigns, and airtime on radio channels helped expand a municipality’s reach. Many cities even created free Wi-Fi hotspots in crowded areas so that people could access Internet and submit suggestions. Advertisements in newspapers, pamphlets, hoardings, and the MyGov app played a significant role in making the Smart City Mission a nationwide phenomenon.
The Smart Cities Mission – MyGov collaboration is an unprecedented exercise in urban planning, which has transformed planning from a top-down centralized activity into a democratic consultative process, taking the citizens’ perspective as the foundation stone on which the city plan is built. MyGov looks forward to partnering with more cities and citizens in the subsequent rounds of the Smart Cities Mission play its part in developing Smart Cities across India.
– Gaurav Dwivedi,
CEO, MyGov
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Respected sir, First I thanks to the present Govt for smart city projects all around the INDIA, but have not found any name for northern India I.e HIMACHAL Pradesh, j&K Uttrakhand as well as for the further infrastructure development of the Chandigarh UT. Sir keep these state along with rest of the country. My demand for overall devolment of this region specially eco-environmental smart cities ,not smart cities #saveusfrompollution #savefuture Regards
parallel lines of railways, roadways and trams should be made in every smart cities and dedicated lanes should be made for buses. Trams should be made available with such cities. all societies should be made to compulsory make use of solar technology including solar lighting and solar heaters. also sewage treatment plant should be made.
in these cities a garden should be made for every 20-30 building and these gardens must be surrounded by these building and they must maintain such gardens
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We can learn so many things from other countries. The different types of technology they are using in making their cities,bridges etc. We can study their system and implement in our smart cities. Like how china first makes the plans of transport system, hospitals, schools etc before establishing a new city. Like how San-Frisco use modern engineering technology to make its city safe from earthquakes. Like this first we should learn then plan then start the work.
the rain water harvesting should be made compulsory in all buildings. instead of advising, the government itself can construct the rainwater harvesting system in all buildings with help of local municipal bodies by charging a affordable amount.
solid waste management especially the non degradable materials is the major issue in big cities. the government can collect the non degradable materials from the residence, commercial places and industries for recycling. this will avoid the dumping of plastics in municipal garbage grounds and helps the rainwater to penetrates into the soil to improve ground water.
It is an idea about cleaning the air of megacities. Most of the people use their own 4 wheeler to commute.So i suggest that these vehicles be fitted with air cleaner so making atleast few air fresh while polluting along with. All the four wheeler and if possible two wheeler be fitted with air cleaner. It will add to clean air mission and clean city mission, healthy for all regardless of poor and rich.
thanks
An association consisting of 100+ apartments/houses should be allowed to work with Govt. closely, frame policies that empowers the association including sale, rental, day to day affairs. Sale of apartments/houses for example should get the assocations no objection certificate before transfer of ownership to ensure proper dues are paid upto date. Similarly for rental, association should be allowed to legally do transaction without subject to tax as it is for the betterment of the society.
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