Nagpur municipal corporation Smart City Idea Challenge
A Smart City Idea Challenge was conceived and was promoted by the NMC across the City. A dedicated web-portal www.smartcitynagpur.com was developed and the citizens were encouraged to provide their ideas for making Nagpur a Smart City. The citizens were also asked to provide ideas for both Pan-City Initiatives as well as Area Based Initiatives (retrofitting, redevelopment and greenfield).
The suggestions will be evaluated and the top 10 ideas will be rewarded by NMC. The Best Idea would be titled “Jhakkas Idea” and NMC would publicize the same.
An aggressive promotion campaign was undertaken by the NMC to promote the Smart City Idea Challenge. Various engagements were planned and organized as part of this promotion.
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Students and citizens (VNIT, Shantiniketan, Raisoni College, Citizen Groups etc.) |
More than 2000 Citizens and Students were part of these promotion events |
Students, Intellectuals, Eminent Citizens, Citizen Groups |
Promotions were held between 10th August and 25th August 2015 |
The Smart City Idea Challenge was open from 12th August and 27th August.
The Idea Challenge was also aggressively promoted through the FM Radio channels like 93.5 RED FM, 98.3 RADIO MIRCHI etc.
The Smart City Idea Challenge competition has received a huge response from the citizens of Nagpur. In all there are 1365 entries received out of which the responses on Website were 915, Email 252 and through Dropbox 198. Currently the entries are being segregated and an expert panel is evaluating the ideas. The panel will shortlist Top 20 entries, which will be presented in front of the citizens and expert panel for final selection. Through this process the Best 10 entries will be selected.
