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Solapur, a textile and bidi manufacturing hub, is one of the major cities of Maharashtra that attracts a sizeable number of visitors for business or commercial purposes. The city is also of religious importance with more than five lakh pilgrims...
Article - 08/03/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Waste management, Citizen engagement
Indore, being the largest and the most populous city in Madhya Pradesh with a population of around 20 lakh (according to the 2011 census), the Indore Municipal Corporation considers sanitation and solid waste management as its topmost priority....
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Transportation, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Data management
A team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has developed a highly sensitive low-cost nanosensor to detect carbon monoxide levels, a step forward in environmental pollution monitoring. These nanosensors can be even synced with a...
Article - 07/19/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Public safety and security
Tackling waste is a problem of plenty. However, by just implementing comprehensive waste segregation and management plan, Mahabalipuram, a temple town in Tamil Nadu, has shown the entire country how to be 100 per cent waste-free. Surprisingly, the...
Article - 07/18/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Waste management
Joining the league of cities with smart solutions, Coimbatore from now will monitor air quality for its citizens. The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has installed 30 solar-powered air quality monitoring devices to address city’s air pollution...
Article - 07/17/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools
In a ground-breaking innovation, IIT Kharagpur has developed a fog algorithm that aims to cut delays and cancellations of flights and trains, by clearing hazy visuals caused by rain, fog or smog, all in real time!Current vision systems are designed...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Information Center, Built environment, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Transportation, Data management
In coming months, Bengaluru will witness a massive public bicycle sharing (PBS) project proposed by the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT). The project, with around 4,000 cycle and 350 docking points, is touted to be India’s largest cycle-...
Article - 07/11/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Upward Mobility, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Conducting a nationwide paperless examination is not an easy task. The Indian Railways (IR)—in a massive saving drive—has saved over 4 lakh trees and 319 crore paper sheets just by adopting online test by replacing bulky, multi-lingual question...
Article - 07/10/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement
Thomson Reuters is exploring strategic options for its Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business, which had revenue of about $ 1 billion in 2014. The business, which has 3,200 employees, provides intellectual property and scientific...
Article - 11/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Transportation
The NDA government under the leadership of Narendra Modi had officially launched the 'DigiLocker' service under its flagship 'Digital India' campaign in late June, while the soft launch of the service was done earlier in February 2015.The service...
Article - 10/29/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Interoperability
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) or the rate at which infants (below the age of one) die has been a grave concern since long; it has been standing on the top priority for the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in India. UP Government comes up with an...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Interoperability
The Indian government has rolled-out its 'Accessible India' campaign, with a motive to make it convenient for 'Persons with Disabilities' (PwDs) to ease the access of administrative buildings and transport among other things. The 'Accessible India'...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation
Bhubaneswar, the administrative, economic and cultural capital of Odisha, is one of the two cities shortlisted from the state for the 100 Smart Cities nation-wide challenge. The city is an emerging information technology (IT) hub with a strong...
Article - 09/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement strategies and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Bhopal is among the seven cities short-listed from the state of Madhya Pradesh under the Centre's '100 Smart Cities' Mission.In a recent interview, Tejaswi S Naik, Municipal Commissioner of Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) spoke to a Construction...
Article - 09/10/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Waste management, Water and wastewater
A 14-nodal planned township of Mumbai established in 1971, Navi Mumbai has been ranked third among 476 cities for sanitation practices and the only city from Maharashtra to finish in the top-ten list announced by the central government under the...
Article - 09/07/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Waste management, Water and wastewater
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India project, which aims to offer a one-stop shop for government services, would use the mobile phone as the backbone of its delivery mechanism. Five hundred million people will come together on the Internet....
Article - 08/31/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Smart City Tools
Worrisome as the drought that's parched regions around the world is, a new global study from Veolia and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) finds rapidly deteriorating water quality will affect far more people and put...
Article - 05/22/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater
By Pratap Padode Smart Cities Council IndiaThe 2015-2016 Union Budget stayed away from using the term smart cities, unlike the one in 2014-2015 which made a special mention, but that doesn’t imply that the Indian government has lost interest in...
Article - 03/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership