India smart city award 2022

India’s Smart Cities Mission wins the Platinum Icon in Digital India Awards 2022 Why in the News? • DataSmart Cities Initiative awarded the Digital India Awards 2022 under ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio Economic Development’ category • The initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities • The Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data” under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio Economic Development’ category. • The award was announce on 19th December 2022. • The DataSmart Cities Initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities. Digital India Awards (DIA): • Digital India Awards (DIA) was instituted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in 2009. • The Government of India has adopted a Digital India vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society & knowledge economy. To realise this vision, it is imperative that the focus be sharpened on the use of innovative digital initiatives to not only enable governance & services on demand, but also to empower citizens. • Indian government entities at all levels – Centre, State & local bodies – continue undertaking various initiatives to fulfil the Digital India vision. Due recognition should be accorded to such digital initiatives al...

Digital India Awards 2022: The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs’ initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data” earned the Platinum Icon award in the Smart Cities Mission category of the Digital India Awards 2022. The award was announced under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development’ category. The DataSmart Cities Initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities. What is DataSmart Cities Initiative? The DataSmart Cities Initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities. It aims to use data’s power for India’s 100 Smart Cities to improve government. Digital India Awards presents an opportunity to bring to the fore digital initiatives being adopted to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It is a prestigious National competition that seeks to encourage and honour innovative digital solutions by government entities in realising the Digital India vision. Through 100 City Data Offices and more than 50 Data Policies, the programme has institutionalised a Data Ecosystem in cities. The 100 Smart Cities now publish open datasets and contribute to data blogs and visualisations through the Smart Cities Open Data Portal, which has seen a transformation from zero to 1.2+ lakh downloads and 6 lakh visits. This initiative has led to generation of more than 180 innovative, scalable, and rep...

The India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC) is organized under the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. Recently, India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) 2020 ceremony was organized ‘Smart Cities, Smart Urbanization’ Conference 2022. The award winners of the India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) 2020 were felicitated at the ‘Smart Cities, Smart Urbanization’ Conference 2022. However, the award distribution ceremony was deferred due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation at that time. These awards were earlier announced through a virtual conference in 2021. What Is A Smart City Award ? Smart Cities India 2022 Awards is a unique platform designed to felicitate, recognize and encourage individuals, policymakers, companies, municipalities, government bodies, and associations to illuminate the work done across both urban and rural sectors. The Awards Ceremony marks the grand finale of the 3-day expo. The India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC) is organized under the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. This is one of the important activities initiated under the Mission, where pioneering city strategies, projects, and ideas are recognized based on innovation, impact, and replicability/scalability. On the occasion of completing 6 successful years of the Smart Cities Mission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) declared the Smart City awards results for 2020 on June 25, 2021. ...

Hidco managing director Debashis Sen hands over one of the two Smart City awards won by New Town to minister Firhad Hakim Sourced by the correspondent Ahead of the Bengali New Year, New Town has got two prizes. At the seventh Smart Cities India Expo 2022 held in Delhi from March 23 to 25, New Town emerged the national winner in two key verticals — Digital City and Smart Waste Disposal and Clean City. The contest was organised by India Trade Promotion Organisation, an enterprise under the Union ministry of commerce and industry, and was supported by the ministry of housing and urban affairs. The Smart Cities India Awards recognised projects that have made an impact by making cities liveable, sustainable, and economically viable by honouring the best practices and models in the Smart Cities concept. In the category on Smart Waste Disposal and Clean City, the nearest contenders were Indore and Bhopal. “For a long time, Indore was the topper in solid waste management. So it is deeply satisfying to overtake them,” Hidco managing director and NKDA chairman Debashis Sen said. New Town also won in Digital City, beating the nearest contenders Indore and Belagavi. Sen listed some of the initiatives that earned New Town the honour. “In our waste to energy initiative, we are segregating solid waste at source after which biomethanation is taking place at our plant near Balaka Abasan. The plant converts five tonnes of organic waste generated in the township daily to gas and then to elec...

The India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) recognizes the exemplary work championed by cities, projects, innovations, and partners in promoting ‘smart’ development in cities. Smart cities can submit their proposal till July 30, 5 pm on All 100 smart cities have participated in the ISAC. There have been three editions of the ISAC, viz., ISAC 2018, ISAC 2019 and ISAC 2020. The fourth edition of ISAC 2022 was announced on February 1. The award has two-stage submission process: first stage or ‘Qualifying Stage’ involves overall assessment of the city’s performance and second stage or ‘Proposal Stage’ requires smart cities to submit their nominations for six award categories viz. Project Award, Innovation Award, City Award, State/UT award, Leadership Award and Partners Award. ISAC ALERT 2022 Only 4 days left! Please submit your proposals by 5pm, 30th July 2022 The Partners Award is a new addition to the Award categories to honour the various collaborators of the smart city ecosystem, e.g., industry partners, knowledge partners and community-based organizations for their contribution in championing the cause of the Smart Cities Mission. The results of the ISAC 2022 will be announced on 15th August 2022. The ‘Smart Cities Mission: A Compendium of Best Practices’ is a ready reference for inspiration and guidance to city practitioners. It captures the most notable projects submitted by the smart cities in the form of proposals under different India Smart Cities Awards Contest, 20...

Indian government plan for urban development Smart Cities Mission Country India Ministry Key people Launched 2015 Funding ₹720,000 crore (US$90billion) Website .gov .in National Smart Cities Mission is an urban renewal and Description [ ] Smart Cities Mission envisions developing an area within the cities in the country as model areas based on an area development plan, which is expected to have a rub-off effect on other parts of the city, It is a five-year program in which, except for Each city will create a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), headed by a full-time CEO, to implement the Smart Cities Mission. ₹1,000 crore (US$130million) funding to the company, as equal contribution of ₹500 crore (US$63million) each. The company has to raise additional funds from the financial markets. History [ ] "100 Smart Cities Mission" was launched by ₹98,000 crore (US$12billion) was approved by the Indian Cabinet for the development of 100 smart cities and the rejuvenation of 500 others. ₹48,000 crore (US$6.0billion) for the Smart Cities mission and a total funding of ₹50,000 crore (US$6.3billion) for the In the ₹7,016 crore (US$880million) for the 150 smart cities. However, only ₹924 crore (US$120million) of the allocated amount could be spent until February 2015. Hence, the ₹143 crore (US$18million) for the project. The first batch of 20 cities was selected. Known as 20 Lighthouse Cities in the first round of the All India City Challenge competition, they will be provided with central as...