RMC Board meeting on Friday focused on Smart City proposal to be presented on December 15 to the Centre for second round approval. Various feasible aspect of Smart City were discussed including the financial aspect of entire project. Ward councillors, Town Commissioner Prashant Kumar, Mayor Asha lakra, Deputy Mayor Sanjeev Vijaywargia were present.
The total estimated capital cost of the smart city project is around `6386.29 crore of which the area based solution for developing Greenfield in 341 acres into a knowledge hub is Rs6359.67 crore, whereas for Pan city proposal an amount of Rs27 crore has been estimated. A sum of Rs1038 crore will be invested by Government of India and Jharkhand Government for the smart city project from various schemes. Private parties through public private partnership (PPP) will be leveraged for taking up the commercial activities of the project for which the capital cost of around Rs5160 crore is being estimated.
“The proposal has been drafted keeping in mind the basic need and requirement of Ranchiites. We have received several opinions and ideas from people through several mediums. Keeping the people consent, we have figured out three important aspects which includes vision of entire city in next 25 years, selecting one component (Retrofitting, Redevelopment and Green Field Development) of city and use of communication technology in developing smart city,” said Town Commissioner, Prashant Kumar.
The importance and significance of use of various aspects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in developing Ranchi as smart city was also highlighted in the proposal.
“SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat) analysis has been done of the entire concept. IT based enabled system will be used in almost every project which includes smart solid waste management system, intelligent traffic management system, complaints tracking mobile application and other,” added Kumar.
With the theme ‘live, learn, work and play’ smart city will be developed focusing on making the smart city as educational hub with all world class facilities available at one place.
“We received suggestion from various people to develop the smart city as the knowledge hub in order to combat migration and to tackle the problem of brain drain. Moreover, if Ranchi is selected as smart city, it will be the first smart city to be developed within the city in entire country,” informed Kumar.