Raipur city will have ‘multi operator integrated telecom masts’ while getting rid of hundreds of telecom towers erected across the city under the ‘Smart City Mission’, officials informed.
The Raipur Smart City ltd (RSCl) will also be setting up an ‘Integrated Command and Control Centre’ as part of the ‘Smart City’ Mission project of the Union Ministry of Urban Development, officials informed.
Smart City mission was launched by the Central Government on June 25, 2015. Subsequently, Raipur was selected among 100 cities to be developed as Smart City in India due to various achievements, initiatives and all-inclusive approach, they informed.
Accordingly Raipur city had submitted “Smart City Proposal” (SCP) to Union Ministry of Urban Development with required consent of Government of Chhattisgarh and statutory authority of Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC).
The city of Raipur has been selected to be developed into a Smart City under the fast track mode of first phase of the Smart Cities mission.
The Smart City proposal of Raipur includes the Smart City solutions which involve the use of technology, information and data to improve infrastructure and services within the city of Raipur .
On the other hand, the Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) is also constructing a state-of-the-art ‘Command and Control Center Building’ at Phase-1, North Block at Sector 19 of the new capital city, officials 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 of smart governance, city surveillance, intelligent transport management system, electricity and water supply and City Command and Control Centre among others.
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.
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-the-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.
It may be recalled that Naya Raipur has emerged in the country with the largest land bank of a mammoth 237 square kilometers ( 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.
On the other hand, the Chhattisgarh Government will also be utilising ‘Centralized Project Management Software System’ (CPMS) for automation of Project Monitoring, Controlling and Reporting task for key projects undertaken in the entire State.
The Government is investing significantly in the State to build physical Infrastructure -Highways, Bridges, Water & Electrical distribution system etc. In order to closely monitor and control these major Infrastructure Projects from inception to closure, Government of Chhattisgarh wants to implement Centralised Project Management system.
Chhattisgarh Infotech and biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) is the nodal agency of Department of Information Technology and Biotechnology, Government of Chhattisgarh in the State of Chhattisgarh to implement the software based monitoring project.
The Centralised project management software system would be used for monitoring work of major departments and agencies such as Chhattisgarh Road Development Corporation (CGRDC), Chhattisgarh State Power Development Corporation ltd (CSPDCl), Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA), Public Works Department (PWD) and Water Resources Department (WRD). This apart, a Centralised Project Management Unit (CPMU) — Team of consultants would work as an interface between Secretariat and Government Implementing Departments and system integrators to ensure proper monitoring of the project works.