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Chandigarh 21st July:- The
Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh V.P. Singh Badnore, today
inaugurated the office of Chandigarh Smart City Limited at over bridge Sector
17 Chandigarh
in presence of Davesh Moudgil, Mayor, Arun Kumar Gupta, Home Secretary,
UT, Chandigarh, K.K. Yadav, Commissioner,
MCC-cum-CEO, Chandigarh Smart City Ltd, Dr. Saurabh Mishra, Additional
Commissioner other senior officers and councilors of MCC.
While addressing the gathering, the Administrator said that the Smart City
Mission was announced by the Government of India in June 2015.
Chandigarh was selected in fast track round of smart City challenge for the
Smart City Mission. He said that under the Smart City Mission project
worth 6100 crores have been proposed. Projects to be implemented by SPV are
worth Rs. 5700 crores, projects worth 4900 crores are expected to be carried
out in PPP model. The Smart city project also involves Projects worth Rs. 400
crores under convergence rest of the projects are to be implemented through.
The
Administrator said that the Area Based Development (ABD) proposal aspires to
address the key issue that emerged out of citizen engagement and focuses on the
theme of “Prevention is better than cure”. The ABD Area of Chandigarh as a
model smart area has a huge potential of becoming a model smart area with the
various features.
The
Administrator asked the officers to start sharing some of projects, which NGOs
or corporate houses can do under CSR activities like beautification of sites,
maintenance of public utilities etc.
While
sharing about the model smart area under ABD proposal, Davesh Moudgil, Mayor of
Chandigarh said that there are various features including Model of
sustainability and low-carbon mobility with innovation transportation solutions
ensuring last-mile connectivity.Model for healthy living with active lifestyle
choices; walkable, disable-friendly and well-connected; compact and mixed-use
area with investments in green infrastructure, he added.
The
Commissioner further said that there is a model of social equity that
emphasizes investments and enhancement of public space (public realm, streets,
plazs or building etc) catering to the needs and comfort of all irrespective of
age, gender or income levels. And also a vibrant regional centre
building upon region’s knowledge industry and providing pro-innovation and
business infrastructure and environment, the Commissioner added.
Talking
about the PAN city proposal, K.K. Yadav, Commissioner MCC said that Pan City
Proposal is to improve public life and safety, and livability using Intelligent
Multi-modal command & control centre, OFC as backbone of smart city
communication, city Surveillance and ATCS for 40 Major Junctions.
He
said that the city has also decided to implement some of the proposal of Area
Based Development as pan city, which include A part of fund from Smart City
Mission would be set apart to leverage loan from AFD for 24x7 water supplying
whole city, public bike sharing has been planned to scale it up to city level,
all the STPs are Proposed to be upgraded to tertiary level with BoD<5,
Instead of Area Based Treatment improvement options pan city works are being
undertaken.
The
Smart City office constructed as state of art office with modern facilities
having provisions of two floors measuring 15310 square feet in total at a total
cost of Rs. 6.74 crores. The CEO office, PA to CEO room, Conference room, seven
rooms of HODs, server room, 24 work stations, reception area, lift &
toilets, circulation area and pantry has been provided in first floor.
Similarly, meeting room, two main offices/cabin, six rooms of HODs, 40 work
stations, circulation area, lift & toilet and pantry have been provided in
the second floor.
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