India Smart Cities Awards:Bhopal and Ahmedabad Selected for ?Innovative Idea? Award

NEW DELHI: Nine awards in three categories, i.e., Project Award, Innovative Idea Award and City Award have been announced under the India Smart Cities Awards, which was launched on June 25, 2017 by Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri .nnThe city award is being given to Surat for showing great momentum in implementation of projects especially in the categories of urban environment, transport and mobility and sustainable integrated development.nnThe Innovative Idea award is being given to a project/idea particularly remarkable for its innovative, bottom-up and transformative approach towards achievement of sustainable integrated development. Joint winners in this category are Bhopal for their Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) and Ahmedabad for Safe and Secure Ahmedabad (SASA) Project.nnThe Project awards are being given to most innovative and successful projects in seven categories that have been completed by April 1, 2018.nnThe Projects selected arennPMC Care from Pune under ?Governance? category,nSmart Place Making from Pune under ?Built Environment?,nSmart Class rooms from NDMC and Jabalpur, Smart Campus from Visakhapatnam, Lighthouse from Pune under ?Social Aspects? category,nB Nest Incubation Centre from Bhopal and Conservation of Rajasthan School of Arts from Jaipur under ?Culture and Economy? category,nPublic Bike Sharing from Bhopal, Pune, Coimbatore and Waste to Energy Plant in Jabalpur under ?Urban environment? category,nIntegrated Transit Management System (TMS) from Ahmedabad and Surat under ?Transport and Mobility? category andnSmart Water Management through SCADA from Ahmedabad under ?Water and Sanitation? category.nDetails:nnIndia Smart Cities Award were launched on 25 June 2017 with an objective to reward cities, projects and innovative ideas, promoting sustainable development in citiesnEligible Participants were Smart Cities only, where respective ULBs / Smart City SPVs were to submit proposalsnThere are 3 categories of awardsnInnovative Idea AwardnRecognize exceptional innovation across 7 Urban themesnCross-cutting theme (integrating more than one category).nShould contribute to the successful transformation of citiesnDemonstrated multi-stakeholder partnership models & civic collaborationnCity AwardnCity need not submit any proposalnMultiple proposals submitted for ?Project Award? and ?Innovative Idea Award? and project implementation will be considered for evaluationnProject AwardnCompleted projects (as on 1st April 2018).nSeparate awards for each of the 7 (Seven) Urban themes given belownnEvaluationnA technical committee of international/multilateral experts from UN Habitat, Asian Development Bank and NIUA evaluated the submissions based on Innovation, Impact, and Replicability/ScalabilitynThe City Award was decided based on cities’ performance on their Awards Score and on Weekly Ranking score as on 2 May 2018 (award application submission deadline). Equal weighting was given to both.nLast Date of receiving entries was2 May 2018.