Final touches to Smart city proposal
The deadline for the Draft proposal for the Smart cities challenge is in its last stage. More than 1,02,890 suggestions were received by the city corporation which, Drawshaw the company preparing the Draft will try and include these suggestions.
Now is the herculean task of getting all those suggestions into a proposal and will have to be submitted.
The smart city proposal has a area based development proposal of about 600 acres each in north and south of the city which includes works such as roads, UG cabling, sewage treatment, gardens, drinking water etc.
Also under the area based developemnt new markets are planned to be developed in Ramteerth nagar, Mahanetsh Nagar, Dharmanath Bhavan, fort Road, Kala Mandir. Developing these markets will help in reducing the traffic in the main market areas, the Drawshaw representative said.
The smart city proposal will have two main aspects Pan city development plan and area based development plan. Pan city plan will basically include better public transport and egovernance.