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Keeping in line with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Mission, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set to allow construction of private toilets in Mumbai slum area. The civic body has already begun removing...
Article - 09/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management
(Photo sourced from the original article)After months of delay, finally on 20 September, 2015, Navi Mumbai got its first set of nine e-toilets. The civic body was planning to set-up 14 e-toilets in the first place. Depending on how the project goes...
Article - 09/25/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management
The National Conclave on Smart Technologies held in late August 2015, witnessed participation from various delegations and organizations across a wide spectrum of communities, from civic bodies, to state and national level government along with...
Article - 09/18/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Public safety and security, Waste management, Water and wastewater
Absenteeism, proxy attendance, late coming, early leaving, frequent walks outside the office, chatting, gossiping, sleeping and even spending additional amount of time in the office loo, are some of the reasons for drop in quality productive output...
Article - 09/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management
'Small is beautiful' is a phrase commonly used to acknowledge to 'small champions' or 'appropriate technologies' that are believed to empower people. In economic terms, smaller organisations or states are said to be functioned more effectively...
Article - 09/15/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management
While updating the Andhra Pradesh government on the status of the plan to develop a 'Smart City' in the state, the Essel Group's key executives met the chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and proposed to build a integrated resort city in AP. According...
Article - 09/14/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Waste management
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
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has taken the initiative to launch a new-age citizen centric solution service called 'BMC Sampark'. The service reinforces and supports the 'Swachh Bhubaneswar Abhiyan'. The service allows citizens to register...
Article - 09/08/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Citizen engagement
Kamikatsu, a small village in the mountains of Shikoku Island in south-west Japan, aims at being the country's first 'Zero Waste' community by 2020. And going by the pace of implementation so far, it seems that the Japanese' town is very much on the...
Article - 09/07/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Examples and case studies
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