Surat Smart City selected for ‘City Award’

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New Delhi : Nine awards in three categories, i.e., Project Award, Innovative Idea Award and City Award have been announced under the India Smart Cities Awards, which was launched on June 25, 2017,  by Housing and Urban Affairs Minister.

The city award is being given to Surat for showing great momentum in implementation of projects especially in the categories of urban environment, transport and mobility and sustainable integrated development.

The Innovative Idea award is being given to a project/idea particularly remarkable for its innovative, bottom-up and transformative approach towards achievement of sustainable integrated development. Joint winners in this category are Bhopal for their Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) and Ahmedabad for Safe and Secure Ahmedabad (SASA) Project.

The Project awards are being given to most innovative and successful projects in seven categories that have been completed by April 1, 2018, according to a PIB release.

The Projects selected are : PMC Care from Pune under ‘Governance’ category, Smart Place Making from Pune under ‘Built Environment’, Smart Classrooms from NDMC and Jabalpur, Smart Campus from Visakhapatnam, Lighthouse from Pune under ‘Social Aspects’ category, B Nest Incubation Centre from Bhopal and Conservation of Rajasthan School of Arts from Jaipur under ‘Culture and Economy’ category, Public Bike Sharing from Bhopal, Pune, Coimbatore, and Waste to Energy Plant in Jabalpur under ‘Urban environment’ category, Integrated Transit Management System (TMS) from Ahmedabad and Surat under ‘Transport and Mobility’ category, and Smart Water Management through SCADA from Ahmedabad under ‘Water and Sanitation’ category.