Under the Smart City initiative of the Union Urban Development Ministry, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area will receive a funding of Rs 500 crore for various projects. NDMC area is among the 20 cities which were announced winners of the Smart City Challenge.
The civic-body will get a funding of Rs 200 crore in the first year for implementation of the project and the remaining funds will be released in subsequent four years. Besides, it had allocated over Rs 400 crore for various projects under Smart City in its budget for 2016-17.
“The major areas that we had proposed to develop in NDMC area include smart bus stops, app-integrated cycle tracks, sensor-based smart parking, e-surveillance including e-challan for traffic violation, automatic sewer cleaning machines, geo-tagging of bins and transforming public toilets into smart public amenities centre,” a senior NDMC official said.
One major initiative under the area-based projects will be transformation of electric poles into smart poles with lEDs having incident-driven controllers, communication infrastructure, WiFi access points, air-quality sensors and noise-pollution sensors.
It will also work upon renovation of Gole Market, an interactive museum on the history of Indian civilisation, installation of a signature giant smart digital screen for displaying traffic updates, cricket scores and advertisements; installation of rooftop solar panels on all buildings, among others. Along with smart grid implementation, 40 MW solar power projects, waste water management plants, boosting project also includes boosting health and education sector too.