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.
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Compulsory Rain Water Harvesting Plants and Government Building .
and in private School,Colleges,Offices,Theaters,Malls.
Specially In BUS Stand and Railway station.
HAve to focus much on tranportation facilities because the major health related problem due to transportation….
We presented a diversity of platformsto our residents to actively participate in making Bhopal a Smart City. We sought citizen’s engagement with a focus on seeking your responses on innovative solution for improved livability and governance to meet your aspirations.
Waste management is a very important aspect for any SMART CITY. I propose that Municipal concept be dismantled and the Govt deploys Professionals to manage this activity as a nodal agency with contractors deployed to carry out the actual activity. Land for dumping waste to be identified in advance; Mechanism to segregate Bio degradable waste and others through colour coding to be specified and educate the citizens. Quantity of waste in each location to be temporarily stored in sufficiently ven
Dear Hon’ble Prime Minister
I am a physician & have seen a number of patients affected by diseases where mosquitoes act as carriers. And it becomes very hard to figure out which places epidemics of malaria or dengue are going to break out. I was reading about the same on internet and came across this one. I thought this would be really useful in enduring long lasting Smart cities project. https://med.ucf.edu/news/2015/11/coloring-mosquitoes-to-identify-those-c…
Care for the environment and the abundance of trees. Currently old(50-60 year) trees are being cut for widening of roads, but that is not helping the situation. Public transportation should be improved, developing metros, overbridges etc
India’s most diverse citizen engagement on multiple platforms including MyGov, Bhopal SmartCity Website Suggestions, Online Polls, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,WhatsApp, Missed Call, Paper Based Suggestion Forms (Kiosks / Voluteers / Mobile Van), Essay Contest, Science Exhibition, Consultation Meetings and Painting Contests
Over 125 meetings with School Students, College Students/Youth, Working Professionals, Housewives, Service Providers, Senior Citizens, Businessman &Industrialists, Traders, Shop Owners, Merchants, Teachers, Doctors, Lawyers, IT Professionals, Educationists, Sports Persons, Automobile Fraternity, Professional Club Members, Journalists,nature enthusiasts, Ward Level Consultations and Elected Representatives of Bhopal
Government school education is one of the pain points in a city like Bhopal and should be improved. English should be must since the childhood, complete Hindi medium of educations sets back the student in global employment competition. We must agree that English has become the language of all economic transactions. You cannot expect a student who is not confident with his communication skills to excel when the clients are based in the US and Europe ("Make in India")
Waste management is a very important aspect for any SMART CITY. I propose that Municipal concept be dismantled and the Govt deploys Professionals to manage this activity as a nodal agency with contractors deployed to carry out the actual activity. Land for dumping waste to be identified in advance; Mechanism to segregate Bio degradable waste and others through colour coding to be specified and educate the citizens. Quantity of waste in each location to be temporarily stored in sufficiently
Under passages & Footover bridges with escalator at Vanivihar, jaydev vihar & acharya vihar flyover
Electricity theft is one of main worry, so smart meters should be emphasised and all old meters should be replaced with smart ones.Focus on planned development considering Future population growth, technology growth.
All street and hordind board lights(advertising display lights) should be LED. That can save more electricity. And empliment solar plate each street… It will be save up to 5MW