Suggestions of citizens are welcome to make the city in the list of top 20 smart cities in the country and the suggestions could be provided through social media and all other possible means of communication said City Mayor Alok Sharma while speaking with the media persons at the inauguration of the first phase of the mission here on Sunday.
Awards worth `3 lakh would be distributed among 170 citizens who would be providing ideas to make smart city better. Citizens of the city could provide valuable advice to make the city in the making of smart city. The selection of top 20 smart cities would be conducted in the month of December 2015, he added.
Mayor Sharma emphasized on the 24 points in the guideline of the smart city and encouraged the citizens and all the agencies, associations, institutes and organisations of the city to support in making city a smart city and help BMC to achieve their targets.
The competition would be completed in four phases in which the best ideas and suggestions could be chosen and awarded. At the initial stage suggestions from the representatives would be collected and later senior citizens, players, youth, industrialists, woman organizations, doctors, lawyers, IT professionals, CA, homeless and others which are part of the city.
Citizens could provide their suggestions at https://mygov.in/ group-issue/smart-city-bhopal/, https://m.facebook.com/bhopalsmartcity and http://bit.ly/ smartbhopal On Twittter accounts @ mayorbhopal, @commissionerbmc and @bhoopalmunicipal.
The Whatsapp number is 924499800 on which the citizens could share their suggestions and email id - smartcitycell@ bmconline.gov.in. Information of re-development in the city and in the nearby areas of the city was shared by Sharma.
Replying to a query Sharma told that the BMC had developed and owns 17 percent of the roads and the rest is developed and maintained by other agencies and BMC has decided to install notice boards mentioning the agencies responsible for the maintenance of the roads.
He discussed the Amrit Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana ( Housing for All) and Swachch Bharat Abhiyan. Answering to question on the basement parking in buildings which is used for commercial purpose creating problems in traffic system Sharma said that action will be taken.