Round 3 : Smart City Consultation for Bhopal
Bhopal Municipal Corporation has always adopted the path of innovation, in order to achieve the goal of offering good quality public life to the citizens of Bhopal, with available limited resources. BMC wants to adopt a participatory process involving the citizens of varied interests concerned with the city’s growth and sustainable development. Today, when every urban local body is striving to provide its citizens with the best of governance, only those like Bhopal figure where decentralized efforts in improving the city’s living environment are clearly visible and are above all other interests. Bhopal an age-old trade centre has been confronted with issues from time to time, which it has used to strengthen itself. Its strategy is to move from ‘tackling issues’ to ‘not allowing issues to emerge’ by means of effective, integrated and phased plans. It is believed that this effort of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation will bring in a corporate vision to the Smart Cities Mission and a change that the citizens of Bhopal will contribute to, and ultimately be benefitted.
Bhopal Smart City has been envisioned as to be 24/7 activity based, thriving and energetic place where people will live work and play. This integrated live-work- and play concept is an approach to sustainable, which giving residents and workers great convenience to commute with a reduce time, within their living environment in terms of convenient access to amenities and facilities around include through land use coordination of carefully balanced areas of residences, office, education, medical and entertainment area.
Bhopal’s Accomplishments:
- Total Smart City Consultation and Citizen Engagement Focussed Group Discussion stands to be More than 110 meetings, wherein upto total of 1,20,000 citizens were involved
- More than 50,000 suggestion questionnaires have been collected
- Bhopal stands first in most popular discussions on MyGOV.
- Stands first in citizen engagement through mygov.in
- Bhopal was Second City to mark its presence on MY GOV for Smart City Consultations and Suggestions
- As of Nov 23, 2015 Smart City Bhopal, My Gov page has 1,11,804 suggestions.
- Maximum votes received on MyGOV poll page
- Bhopal has 4 Smart City Blogs on My Gov which is more than any other City.
- In My GOV, Smart City Essay Section, 5091 Submissions have been received, of which 990 stand approved
- On MYGOV portal Bhopal has received 81 Logo Submissions.
Please find a brief Powerpoint Presentation for further inputs in the Smart City Proposal prepared. The attached presentation features key components of Area Based Development & PAN-CITY Solutions
ROUND 3 of consultation is open for inputs for 5 days.
