The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) on Friday won the Smart City Empowering India Awards -2020 in New Delhi for managing urban flooding through the ‘Mu Saviour’ application. Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri gave the award.
‘Mu Saviour’ is an information communication technology (ICT)-based solution, which helps curb urban flooding in future. The app was piloted in Nayapalli and Shatabdi Nagar in December last year by the BSCL and the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation in partnership with the German Development Cooperation using co-creation methodology by involving citizens of the pilot areas. The app collects information from citizens, i.e., any garbage in drains, the water level and the water flow in drains. The information goes to analytical system directly where it gets analysed along with pre-existing static information such as vulnerability map of the project area, drainage type, and capacity, land use type, number of populations staying in the locality, etc.
Based on the information, the analytical system sends notification to city officials with a priority list on real-time basis. Using the list, officials can act accordingly and keep drains clean to reduce the impact of urban flooding.
