The Chhattisgarh Government will soon form a ‘Special Purpose Vehicle’ (SPV) for development of Naya Raipur under Central Government’s Smart City Mission, officials informed.
Notably, Chhattisgarh’s hi-tech green field capital city Naya Raipur has been included in Centre’s ‘Smart City Mission’
Bilaspur was the other city which was also included under ‘Smart City Mission’.
Notably, Naya Raipur being first planned city of 21st century already has state-of-the-art infrastructure at its disposal. The city has well planned economic and social infrastructure, officials informed.
The Village Development Plan is also taking care of social equity and cohesion. The rich culture and heritage all adds to the strength of the city, they informed.
It may be recalled that a ‘Master System Integrator’ will manage the extraordinarily high-technology oriented ‘Naya Raipur Smart City System’.
The Naya Raipur Smart City System will comprise Smart Governance, City Surveillance, Intelligent Transport management System, Electricity and Water supply and City Command and Control Centre among others, officials informed.
Notably, the Naya Raipur as a Smart City will leverage the collective intelligence created by connecting physical, institutional, social and economic infrastructure to deliver a quantum improvement in the quality of life of local population, they informed.
Notably, the new capital city of Chhattisgarh is a ‘green field’ city and is planned to develop its infrastructure gradually in order to provide world class amenities and facilities to its residents and visitors.
NRDA has taken the next step in “Smart City’ development with plans now for ‘Information & Communication Technology” (ICT) enablement of infrastructure and citizen services, officials informed
Naya Raipur is already among five other cities in the country chosen as ‘Demonstration Cities’ for the Centre’s ambitious Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP).
The final five cities participating as ‘Demonstration Cities’ under Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) are — Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Mysore (Karnataka), Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad (Maharashtra).
Detailed project profiles were prepared by all cities with the assistance of the SUTP Consultants and then endorsed by the SUTP Steering Committee to be included to SUTP as ‘City Demonstration Projects’, officials stated.
It plans of developing a project comprising IT-enabled systems to manage a host of utilities using state-of-art technology.
The design would comprise IT enabled land management system, city surveillance besides a host of other systems till now popular and being used only in the developed countries.
The other city management systems include intelligent lighting systems, pay and use parking systems, city guide map available through web browser, intelligent transport system, city level wi-fi touch screens across the city, display boards across the city for providing real-time information, emergency alert and crisis response systems, traffic re-routing applications based on real time traffic data.
The city would also have a Central Control Center for monitoring all the services including central traffic control and management system.
It may be recalled that Naya Raipur has emerged in the country with the largest land bank of a mammoth 237 square kilometres (23,700 hectares).
The NRDA has plans of developing a ‘Transport Hub’ spread over an area of 161.9 hectares in the new capital city.
The hub would include setting up light Rail Transport System (lRTS) stations. The area being earmarked for the ‘Transport Hub’ would be 12.55 per cent of the total area of the new capital city, officials stated.
Five residential sectors having more than 8000 dwelling units had already been completed in Chhattisgarh’s new high tech capital Naya Raipur last year, officials informed.
The habitation in the residential sectors has also commenced, they informed.
It may be recalled that the Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) will also develop a ‘land Management System’ for managing disposal of land for infrastructure development, officials informed.
Naya Raipur is not just fast emerging as the hi-tech State capital of Chhattisgarh but also an adventure sports destination.
The four kms cycling track, Kayaking, Burma Bridge and a 2 kms skating track are some of the facilities already functional in the new capital city, officials informed.
Boating facility had been made available to visitors at the Jungle Safari from January 1 this year in the new capital.
The Jungle Safari comprises of four separate Safaris including Herbivore Safari, Bear Safari, Tiger and lion Safari.
Around 166 personnel including officials, doctors, zoo-keeper, guard and other staff are deployed for taking care of animals in the Safari.
Notably the Chhattisgarh government has also earmarked 258.48 hectares of land in the capital for setting up a ‘Nature Resort’ and a ‘Theme Park’ in future, officials stated.
There is a reasonable surge of NRI interest globally in buying home and even commercial properties in Chhattisgarh’s high-tech green field capital city- Naya Raipur, officials inform.
With realtors globally marketing their properties for Smart Cities in various countries, Naya Raipur which is emerging as one of the strong contenders in the green field city segment in India has evinced great interest among expatriate Indians in buying home and even commercial properties here, they informed.
Interestingly, many of the expatriate Indians also don’t even belong to Chhattisgarh but want to settle down in a green field smart city environment which suits their comforts and lifestyles which they experience abroad.
The Unique Selling Proposition (USP) for a green field city is that its infrastructure is built following global engineering parameters to make the quality of life of citizens much above the average living in any other conventional city, officials stated.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh government has allotted Sector 5 in Naya Raipur for setting up of non polluting industrial projects.
A mega Multi-Modal logistic Park (MMlP) is currently also under construction spread in an area of 103 acres with an investment of Rs 207 crore in Naya Raipur, officials informed.
Notably, the MMlPs in Telangana, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Uttarakhand are being developed by Central public sector undertaking Container Corporation of India ltd (CONCOR).
As part of the National Perspective Plan, prepared under the Sagarmala Programme of the Union Ministry of Shipping, a total of seven MMlPs were proposed in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Telangana, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
The potential sites were identified based on comprehensive study of the container cargo movement across the country and are located in the proximity of important industrial clusters. This will be advantageous for the transportation of containerized cargo, officials informed.
Taking this forward, CONCOR officials have informed that domestic operations have already commenced at 1 MMlP in Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) and MMlPs at 4 proposed locations - Nagulapally (Telangana), Siliguri (West Bengal), Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Jharsuguda (Odisha), which are under development stage.
For the other 2 locations - North Madhya Pradesh / Chhattisgarh border (Singrauli) and Nagaur (Rajasthan), action will be initiated with a detailed area-wise analysis.
A total of 117 Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum (IEM) were filed in Chhattisgarh with the proposed investment of Rs 36,511 crore during 2015-16 as on December 2015.
This is in comparison to 37 IEMs filed with the proposed investment of Rs 1,62,584 crores during financial year 2014-15, the annual report 2015-16 of the Department of Industrial Promotion and Policy (DIPP) has mentioned.
Chhattisgarh intends to offer renewable energy equipment market for solar photo voltaic equipment worth Rs 32,000 crore during the next five years to investors who decide to establish projects in the State, they stated.
The government is also promising abundant and easy access to raw materials that go into equipment manufacturing for renewable energy sector.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh government has commenced the process of setting up the Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) at Sector-22 of the new capital.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh government will also be setting up an IT SEZ in the vicinity of the EMC to be established at Sector 22 in the new capital.
The EMC would be at located about 7 kms from the Swami Vivekananda Airport, Raipur. The site enjoys abundant water supply from the Mahanadi River and also have also sufficient power connection to cater the needs of operation in EMC, officials stated.
The location of the EMC is at Tuta village of Naya Raipur. The chief promoter of the project is Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation (CSIDC) and the project is to be established in an area measuring 70 acres.
As of now, there is minimal presence of Electronic System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) sector in the State. However, with its inherent strengths, the State has immense potential to become an ESDM hub of the country, officials stated.
Chhattisgarh has emerged as a lucrative investment hub among its competing states with sectors like power, mining and minerals, manufacturing, sponge iron and steel, IT/ITes, biotechnology, food processing, etc. becoming key investment drivers and has attracted both domestic and foreign investment over the past few years, officials informed.
The State is steadily garnering support from the investors, transforming it to a manufacturing and power hub of the country. While the state administration is based in Raipur, a new capital for Chhattisgarh at Naya Raipur has been developed.
Chhattisgarh is poised to become the next ESDM hub of India with the availability of enabling infrastructure, minerals and talent pool.
The proposed EMC is aimed at providing one stop integrated facilities with manufacturing support, welfare and common infrastructure facilities to the prospective electronics manufacturing industries. The proposed EMC is envisaged to house world class eco system for electronics manufacturing industries.
Assessments of the key infrastructure availability in the catchment area of the Project Site suggest that the catchment region is well equipped with the sector enabling infrastructure.
Six-lane expressways provide easy access to the city. At present, access is through NH-43 at the south- eastern boundary and NH-6 at the northern boundary of Naya Raipur. Nearly 75.2 km of 4 lane/six lane roads have already been constructed. 61 km road network is under construction, officials stated.
The power requirement of Naya Raipur is to be met in three phases. The city is having an underground power distribution system along with SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system to have online monitoring and control of power supply.
Non-conventional and alternative energy resources are being used to the maximum. Street lighting is planed using latest technology with network control and lEDs. Solar power will be used widely in administrative buildings, street lighting and traffic signals, officials stated.
Two more new Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are currently being developed in Chhattisgarh for providing a major boost to industrial development in the State.