On the occasion of the first anniversary of launching of Smart City Mission, moving a step further on the path of smart city, five projects were launched in the state capital on Saturday in order to provide smart facilities to the people.
A workshop on the topic ‘Towards a Smarter Bhopal – Project implementation workshop’ was held to mark the occasion at Hotel Noor us Sabah Palace. Minister in-charge for the district Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargawa, Urban Development and Environment Minister lal Singh Arya, Mayor Alok Sharma, MP Alok Sanjar, legislators Rameshwar Sharma and Vishnu Khatri, Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) council Chairman Surjeet Singh Chouhan, leader of Opposition in BMC Mohammed Sagheer, Principal Secretary Urban Development and Environment Department Malay Shrivastava, Urban Administration and Development Commissioner and Smart City Mission Director Vivek Agarwal, Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer and former chief secretary of the state R Parshuram were especially present on the occasion.
Two agreements, one each with CISCO and FICCI pertaining to the smart city were also signed on the occasion.
Bhargawa in order to provide smart facilities to the people under smart city launched City dashboard and citizen delivery platform, intelligent street poles, intelligent traffic management system, smart public bike sharing and city level GIS projects. While the BMC Commissioner Chhavi Bharadwaj signed agreement with Cisco for Bhopal Golden Mile while another agreement for Smart City Project Implementation Support was signed with FICCI.
A presentation over ‘Acceleration towards development- Smart solutions’ was also given during the workshop while in discussion over ‘Bhopal light house city – Industry and entrepreneurs’ implementation of smart city projects and financial management were discussed. Besides, a symposium was also held over industrialization and start up in Bhopal.
Bhargawa while addressing the gathering on the occasion said, “Bhopal is far ahead of the Smart City concept of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the credit of this goes to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.”