Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated various initiatives as part of smart city project of New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Monday.
The facilities inaugurated by Rajnath includes smart poles with free wi-fi, 360 degree cameras and environmental sensors, solar tree with the lED lights, mobile charging points, ideation centre for promoting smart city entrepreneurs, two hi-tech nurseries and others. He flagged off four mechanical road sweepers, two litter picking machines and ten auto trippers under the Swachhta initiatives.
Singh also released a Coffee Table Book on green initiatives of NDMC titled “Green and Colourful NDMC - A Transformational Journey” on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion Singh said all doubts have been eliminated by launching off a number of digital initiatives by NDMC to transform New Delhi areas into smart city. “It has been proved that not only the smart cities will make digital but the nation is standing at the threshold and all set to make the digital India in near future,” he said.
He also said the steps undertaken by the NDMC in the area of digitalisation so as to provide better services and facilities to the people was a role model for other civic bodies across the nation and the other cities under the smart city category should follow the footprints of the council in that direction.