The Smart City Mission, started by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, will turn 8 years old on June 25, 2023. Various programs have started in all the 100 smart cities of the country to celebrate the eighth anniversary. According to the instructions of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, all the cities have to organize several programs from June 23 to June 27 to inform people about the schemes being developed under Smart City. In this sequence, mainly three programs were organized by Ranchi Smart City on 23 June 2023.
On Friday evening, a cyclothon was organized in Ranchi Smart City ABD area in which students doing internships on behalf of various educational institutions in Ranchi Smart City and officials of Smart City cycled. A total distance of 6 km was covered in this cyclothon. During this, cycling was also done on the cycle track built in Ranchi Smart City.
As per the guidelines of the mission, expert students from all the fields involved in the cyclothon were told about the smart city and the features present in it. They were visited and physical examination of the plans was done and it was told that special care has been taken in this construction and the infrastructure being developed in this city is of world class. State-of-the-art technology has been used in this infrastructure.
On the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Smart City Mission, Ranchi Smart City gave an offer letter for internship to 6 students who will do internship here for two months from next week and will closely see and understand the work being done in the government and corporate sector. It is worth mentioning that apart from these six students, 22 students are already doing internship in various faculties from Ranchi Smart City, whose internship will end in June and July. These students include students from Delhi University, BIT Mesra, Kalinga Institute, Bhubaneswar, and ICFAI University Jharkhand.
In view of the rapid urbanization in the world, to prepare more and more technical experts and to provide training opportunities to the youth who wish to make a career in the field of urban planning, the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, on behalf of the Government of India, has set up The Urban Learning Internship Pragrame (TULIP) was started. A total of 44 students have successfully done internship in Ranchi Smart City since June 2019 and currently 28 students are doing internship. Usually these students do internships in Civil Engineering, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Urban Planning, Architect, Management, Accounts and Finance.
Smart City's GM (Technical) Rakesh Kumar Nandkyolyar, PRO Amit Kumar, Manager Utkarsh Kumar, Kishan Kumar, Anjani Dubey, Abhishek Kumar, Ejaz, Rohit and 28 students from different institutions were present in today's programme. The program of Command Control and Communication Center visit has been kept on June 27, 2023, the students of the school will reach the students.