Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu today formally launched the ambitious 'Smart City project' for Indore organised here at Brilliant Convention Centre in association with the Confederation of Indian Industries.
The function was presided over by the lok Sabha Speaker and local MP Sumitra Mahajan, Madhya, while Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was special guests on the occasion.
The 'Smart City' is proposed to come up in 764 acres of busy Rajwada and its adjoining localities including 64 acres of MOG lines region with modern infrastructure at an estimated cost of `5,000 crore. Indore is among the 20 cities that had been shortlisted in the first lot of the places to be developed as smart cities.
Earlier, in the day an exclusive conference with technical sessions and exhibition on Smart Cities were held at Brilliant Convention Centre.
The objective of this conference and exhibition wherein as many as 70 companies of different sectors from across the country put up its stalls, offering solutions for smart cities, was to provide the specific technical solutions required for Indore city and economically viable financial models for the same.
Focus sectors of various technical sessions organised during the day included urban transportation, water supply and waste water management, solid waste management, energy & power supply, built environment green buildings, ICT enabled Government services, health and education, urban environmental sustainability and public safety and security.
The technical sessions organised today focused on providing platform to the service providers/participating companies to showcase their expertise and share their knowledge on giving end to end solutions for the smart city project.
Besides representatives from various government departments from the State Governments, the conference also witnessed enthusiastic participation from Industry stakeholders, financial institutions, representatives of potential investors, international trade and investment organisations.