Smart City Projects

Following the fourth accident in the city where a truck laden with pipes plunged into a dug-up road, on Thursday night, Congress leaders led by Elvis Gomes surrounded the 'Smart City' office

Government data disclosed that nearly 88 per cent of the funds given by the Centre for smart city projects has been utilised

Rethinking cities to make them more liveable is a key component of smart cities but this requires building fair, participatory, sustainable and inclusive urban development policies

/ -- IIITH Smart City Living Lab in partnership with Silicon Labs, a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology, today launched a campus-wide Wi-SUN network to enable research and solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities. Wi-SUN is an open-standard protocol enabling interoperable solutions through open source software with multi-layer security. Wi-SUN will enable utilities, municipalities, and other enterprises to deploy long-range, low-power wireless mesh networks connecting thousands of IoT nodes. IIITH Smart City Living Lab is setup as an initiative of MEITY (Ministry of Electronics & IT) , National Cities Mission, and Gov of Telangana, with knowledge support from EBTC (European Business Technology Council). Silicon Labs, Intel, and Saint Gobain are the other three founding corporate partners. Professor Ramesh Loganathan said, "The Smart City Living Lab, a year old now, is already a testbed for various start-ups and research. IIITH's campus consists ..

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday said that 216 projects worth Rs 713 crore had been approved for Shimla under Smart City Mission

The National Green Tribunal noted that its joint committee formed to study the issue has failed to follow the directions of the Supreme Court.

Erode Municipal Corporation had called bids to operate and manage the centre, which would bring in data pointers from various sources such police, transport, water, sewerage, and power under one roof

In the current financial year, the flow towards capex has slowed down a bit, due to the need to spend financial resources elsewhere

The Survey noted that about 1,290 projects worth Rs 22,569 crores have been completed and are operational

On Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna-Urban (PMAY-U) programme, the Survey said the scheme was launched in June, 2015 to provide "pucca" house with basic amenities to all eligible urban poor

Even as right to privacy has been declared a fundamental right, India does not have a personal data protection law yet

The business in the government sector is primarily driven by projects in railways, metro stations, smart cities and airports

Tenders worth Rs 1.31 trillion cleared, work to be completed over five years

It is looking at raising a debt of Rs 450 crore for the Eluru project and Rs 400 crore for the Bengaluru project, the official added

The legal experts gathered at a conference in Kolkata on sustainable urban development

The release of funds depends on certain conditions, including satisfactory physical and financial progress indicated by utilisation certificate that the cities have to submit to the ministry

Under the mission, 90 cities have been selected so far by the government and each city will get Rs 500 crore as central assistance for implementing various projects

National standards make the smart cities work safely and smoothly, he said

The Modi government has committed central assistance to the tune of around Rs 3 lakh crore under various new urban missions, a senior ministry official said

Evaluation criteria include "impact, innovation and scalability/replicability" in other areas of the