Chandigarh, 4th April,
2016: Chandigarh has
been selected under the Fast Track Cities for Smart City Mission under the
Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD). In this phase, Chandigarh will be
competing with 23 other cities, to enhance its Smart City proposal and become
eligible for funding on accelerated basis in 2016-17.
To refine its
vision, mission and a proposal based upon suggestions received from panel of
expert and MoUD, the consultant team from AECOM India Pvt Ltd has been hired.
The consultant team is on ground since last 4 week reviewing comments received
from panel of experts and MoUD, talking to stakeholders, conducting assessment
of previously submitted SCP and making necessary refinements to the Chandigarh
Smart City Proposal.
A Press Conference was held today at
the UT Secretariat, under the chairmanship of Sh. Anurag Agarwal, IAS, Home
Secretary cum State Mission Director, Smart City to give an insight into the
revised smart city proposal for Chandigarh. Other senior officers present
during the conference were Sh. Baldeo Purushartha, IAS, Commissioner Municipal
Corporation cum Nodal Officer, Smart City Mission, Sh. Bhupesh Chaudhary, IAS,
Co-Nodal Officer, Smart City Mission and Sh. Amit Talwar, PCS, Additional
Deputy Commissioner cum Director CTU,
UT, Chandigarh. The press conference highlighted various aspects of the revised
Smart City Proposal, which included:
Strategic
Blueprint
The strategic blueprint
for Chandigarh was developed based upon the City’s SWOT analysis, Citizen Input
in terms of their needs and aspiration, benchmarking of relevant case studies
and review of planned, ongoing and proposed projects. The strategic focus of
Chandigarh over next 5-15 years would include:
·
Chandigarh
to emerge as vibrant regional centre that builds upon its strong social,
intellectual and cultural heritage. Chandigarh will focus on inducing
people-intensive activities and uses in the fields of arts, culture, sports and
innovation by providing necessary infrastructure while building upon the
presence of strong institutes. A vibrant Chandigarh will use technology that
will enable enhancement in governance, providing the citizens real time
information while giving them tools to make daily choices. A vibrant Chandigarh
will tap into its tourism potential building upon its natural resources,
architectural heritage, distinct regional identity and opportunities.
·
Chandigarh
to emerge stronger to withstand the 21st Century challenges of Climate change,
and modern day man-made disasters such as flooding, air pollution, rising
temperatures and unforeseen events. The recent flooding in Chennai to drastic
measures taken by Delhi to confront unhealthy air to alarming increase in the
number of vehicles plying on the Chandigarh roads and resultant health and
safety hazards are strong indicators where climate change is real and
Chandigarh will become resilient to address such challenges. Such a strategic
blue print for Chandigarh will ensure “Prevention is better than cure” and will
put in place measures to ensure that the City doesn’t have to resort to drastic
measures in future to counter today’s problems.
·
Chandigarh
to emerge as a healthy and sustainable city where health and safety of the
citizens is of primary importance. With the rising urbanization and better
living standards, the city people are more prone to life style diseases. There
is rise in
number of cases
reporting to the
Hospitals with Hypertension,
Obesity, Cardiovascular diseases (source: Chandigarh Action Plan on Climate
Change). In addition, Chandigarh is experiencing high vehicle growth rate that
result in air pollution, high congestion levels and high incidents of road
accidents. The strategic blueprint of Chandigarh is to grow towards a more
healthier and sustainable growth addressing these issues by creating a more
walkable &bike friendly city where people have choice of non-motorized
transportation, easy access to public transportation, where the city will
promote a compact and mixed-use model of future development that will bring
jobs closer to home, and where the citizens are able to live a healthier
lifestyle.
Vision and
Goals
Vision
Statement:
‘A Vibrant and Distinct Regional Centre. The City beautiful is
envisioned to become leader in sustainability, liveability, equality and
innovation’
Goals:
·
A model city for
Liveability and mobility
·
A Healthy and
Sustainable City
·
A City that celebrates
it ‘Modern Planned Heritage’, culture and natural infrastructure
·
A centre of Innovation
& Start-ups
·
Reinstate as a ‘Vibrant
Regional Centre’
PAN City
Initiative
Pan city proposal is to improve public life and
safety, and livability using two initiatives-
a) Smart Integrated e-Governance
A unified portal to access services with a
personalized profile based mobile app which will act as one stop app and a
gateway to enable two way citizen engagement.
b) Intelligent Multi-modal command &
control center
To supplement the ongoing individual initiatives
ITMS, SCADA implementation of Water, Police system, Health & traffic etc
and expansion of unified command and control centre for Traffic, Police, Fire,
Health & Disaster with utilities services.
Both initiatives will use common cloud based
Infrastructure solution and operation, data integration platforms having
unified database.
Area Based
Development
The
Area Based Development (ABD) proposal aspires to address the key issues that
emerged out of citizen engagement and focuses on the theme of “Prevention is
better than cure”. The challenges that Chandigarh faces today are mostly
related to the City retaining its vitality as a vibrant regional centre, job
growth and economic development, tourism potential, national leader in knowledge
sector and innovation, and retaining its advantage as one of most liveable city
in India. The ABD strategies objective is to learn from the global best
practices and identify locally relevant initiatives and technologies that could
yield measurable benefits. Additionally, ABD strategies have taken inspiration
from international examples like Barcelona (transforming the city economically,
socially and culturally) and New York (transforming public spaces from vehicle
only to pedestrian only).
The ABD boundary
includes Sector 16 (part), 17, 18 (part), 22, 35 and 43. The infill development
in sector 43 is in line with the Draft TOD policy but also fulfils the
essential requirements towards making Chandigarh a preferred destination and a
‘Vibrant Regional Centre’. Key projects include:
• Introducing vehicle free zones – internal areas of sector 17
• Transitioning diesel operated auto-rickshaws to
E-rickshaws over time.
• Electric
Buses (Refurbishment of Existing Buses) for ABD and Battery Operated Buses for
Intra Movement of Sector 17 to aid in non-motorised movement in ABD area.
• Pedestrian signage and way-finding
• Public
Bike Sharing
• Adaptive
re-use of Press Building as Incubation centre
• Smart
Signalling & Traffic Surveillance
• ITS
Application in Public Transport including Smart Ticketing, Vehicle Tracking and
Passenger Information System
• Smart
On-Street Parking
• 24
x 7 Water Supply
• Recycled
Water Supply
• Solid Waste Management
• Smart
Metering for power and water
• Introducing bicycle trail in Leisure valley with trail nodes
• Sidewalk improvements, Handicap accessible sidewalks,
comprehensive bicycle network
• Installation of Solar based LED Street Lighting along with installation
of new light poles along streets and public parks, Solar roof top
• Provision of Public Toilets along with Bus-Stops to
provide better facilities
• Undergrounding surface parking lots into MLCP
structures and making space available on ground for other activities like food
on wheels, art/cultural events spaces, exhibition/display spaces etc
• Innovative
use of open spaces. Urban design of public plazas into a space for active
recreation like Art/culture bazaars like ‘Nature Bazaar/Dastakar’, food courts
etc
• Pedestrianisation
of Jan Marg on weekends with active functions like art fairs, food trucks, yoga
and active sports, streets shows, plays and music concerts bringing people on
the streets and taking cars off the street – something similar to “Rahagiri –
Our Streets our Freedom”
• In-filling
the vacant land in sector 43, an area of approx. 71 acres to create a compact
and mixed use anchor development.
Implementation Strategies
Chandigarh
Smart City project will be implemented by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV). This
SPV will be a company and will be incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956.
It will be 50:50 Joint Ventures between Chandigarh UT Administration &
Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh. It will be a100% public company. The primary
role of the SPV will be to plan, appraise, approve, finance, implement, manage,
operate, monitor and evaluate Smart City Solutions (both Pan City & area
wide).
It
is estimated that the total cost of the projects to be implemented as a part of
the Smart City Project will be Rs. 6200 Crore (Rs. 250
Crore for the Pan City Proposal and Rs. 5950 Crores for the Area Based Development). The SPV will fund the identified projects
through the following means:
A. Equity
to be invested by the stakeholders: total equity of Rs. 1,000 crore will be
invested by the two stakeholders i.e. Municipal Corporation Chandigarh and
Chandigarh Administration. MCC’s equity will be generated from the grant fund
which will be created to receive funds made available by GoI under the SCP
program.
B. Convergence
with Other Schemes: Funds for the Smart City Proposal will be made available
from the convergence from other schemes of Govt. of India as well as Chandigarh
Administration, like AMRUT, Solar City Mission, Integrated Power Development
Scheme (IPDS), Digital India etc.
C. Leveraging
other resources – Private sector led funding: Some of the projects will be
funded through Private sector.
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