Bhubaneswar received the Best Smart City award at the three-day international conference, ‘Smart City Expo India 2018’ held at Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Centre (JECC) in Sitapura recently. The capital city received this award for its community mobilisation and community development, which forms a part of the Socially Smart programme. The Socially Smart programme is a joint collaboration of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and gives focus on the needs of young people, security of girls and women, especially in slum areas. Under this programme, 320 adolescent girls from eight slums have been given training on self-defence and 22 slums around Bhubaneswar got the open defecation free status.