What To Expect From #NDMC Delhi’s Rs 500 Crore Smart City Funding

New Delhi: The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area in the capital will be developed among others in PM Modi’s Smart City initiative, enabling it to receive a funding of Rs 500 crore for various projects.

Making its cut through a rigorous competition, the NDMC area is among the top 20 cities which were announced winners of the Smart City Challenge today, which the Urban Development Minister dubbed “as competitive as the Civil Services Exam”.

The NDMC, which consists of only 3 per cent of the area and population of the national capital will get a funding of Rs 200 crore in the first year for implementation of the project and the remainder in the subsequent four years. Besides, over Rs 400 crore were also allocated in its budget for 2016-17 under the initiative.

On the expected development in the area, a senior NDMC official said, “The major areas that we had proposed to develop include smart bus stops, app-integrated 6cycle tracks, sensor-based smart parking, e-surveillance including e-challan for traffic violation, automatic sewer cleaning machines, geo-tagging of bins and transforming public toilets into smart public amenities centre.”

The selected proposal cited that the projects to be undertaken by NDMC have been divided into two broad categories – 29 area based projects and 9 pan-city projects.

Another major initiative under the area-based projects will be transformation of electric poles into smart poles with LEDs, having incident-driven controllers, communication infrastructure, WiFi access points, air-quality sensors and noise-pollution sensors.