Introduction
Immediately
after the communication by the center of its proposal to include Thiruvananthapuram
in the next round of smart city development scheme, the capital city
corporation has installed the suggestion boxes at important junctions of the
city. Through these suggestion boxes,
the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation wanted to get inputs from the public on what
all facilities that should be included in the list for submission to the
center. In order to elicit the response from the public, the corporation has
come out with Smart City contest. In this blog, we will be looking at what the
corporation wants to do with these suggestions.
Proposal
for Smart City
In a
first of its kind, the Left Democratic Front (LDF)-led Thiruvananthapuram Corporation
has placed about 30 suggestion boxes for receiving ideas and proposals from the
public at important junctions in the city. Apart from this, the city body has
already received over 1000 proposals from ward-level committees as part of the
contest. The city corporation wants to reproduce the success it got at the
committee level in the Smart City Contest. There were over 5000 people in
attendance in some of the ward-level committees, according to some newspaper
reports. It included some of the distinguished persons who have the stamp of
authority on the subject. After the event wherein people have given their
inputs, the authorities opened boxes and collected the suggestions for the
experts to wet their inputs.
Expert
Scrutiny
The
suggestions collected under the Smart City Contest will be submitted to the
panel of experts for their scrutiny. As part of this exercise, the experts from
various fields such as waste management, sanitation, e-governance, IT, urban
development, culture and heritage, education and security will peruse the
proposals, suggestions and other inputs to codify the response that corporation
wants to sent to the Union Government. After the scrutiny, the best idea or
proposal will be suitably rewarded to recognize the creativity. Ministry of
Urban Development (MoUD) has included the Thiruvananthapuram along with 7 other
state capitals that were left out in the Smart City participation list.
Proposals
Though MoUD
gave no concrete guidelines, the civic bodies need to meet certain conditions.
The organizations conducted the road-shows and idea van to educate the people
on the Smart City concept. Further, the civic bodies received the response from
the public through flash mob, group run and opinion survey. This
all-encompassing effort is aimed at taking the public along in the process.
This approach will help combine the best of ideas on addressing issues on the
civic amenities in the city. The idea is to develop the best smart city within
the confines of the geological and cultural restrictions.
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