The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur has sought necessary environment clearances from the Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) for setting up its state-of-art campus in the new capital.
In a letter to Member Secretary, CECB, it had been stated that the Government of Chhattisgarh has allotted 80.92 hectares of land in Cheria and Pota villages for construction of a permanent campus of the institute, officials informed.
Notably, the Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) will develop an ‘Institutional and Research Area’ in a sprawling 264.95 hectares of land in the new capital.
The new capital region would also have a ‘University Area’ built in an area of 411.5 hectares. Naya Raipur is 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.
NRDA to cite an example is going for an ‘Intelligent Rain Water Drainage System’ fixed with indicators to send alert before water logging or flood situation with option for automatic valve opening system, 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 an Central Control Center for monitoring all the services including central traffic control and management system.
Chief Minister Raman Singh had put up a proposal with the Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani for approving establishment of a ‘School of Planning & Architecture' in Naya Raipur during her day-long tour of Chhattisgarh during the month of March last year.
The Chief Minister had stated that the Chhattisgarh government can provide land for setting up the School.
He said that the School can specialize in providing a curriculum based on environment friendly urban design and smart city development.
Notably, on June 23 last year, Union Minister of State for Power and Coal (Independent charge) Piyush Goyal on his visit to Naya Raipur had announced to set up an Innovation lab on the newly built IIIT campus here within the next two years.
The move would help students get an opportunity to take up research and innovation projects of their interest, he had stated.
"The institute will become a catalyst of growth in Information Technology and Telecom sector in the coming days. Not only in Chhattisgarh, but students from this institute will serve in the entire country," he said .
Spread over 50 acres of land, the state-of-art campus is jointly built by Chhattisgarh government and NTPC at a cost of Rs 200 crore in Naya Raipur.
"With the collaboration of NTPC, the State government would establish an innovation lab in the IIIT premises where renowned scientists from eminent institutes across the world will be called to guide the students to take up research and technology projects," he said.
The lab will provide an opportunity to students to showcase their talent in area of research and innovation and will also help greatly in discovering and introducing new technology in coal , mining, power generation though thermal, solar and wind energy, Goyal had .