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Common Solutions for all cities

Common Solutions for all cities
Start Date :
Jun 14, 2015
Last Date :
Jun 21, 2015
01:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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While each smart city will have distinctive features specific to its location, demography, culture and other such factors, there maybe smart solutions to problems which are common ...

While each smart city will have distinctive features specific to its location, demography, culture and other such factors, there maybe smart solutions to problems which are common to all cities. This contest seeks to identify such smart and innovative solutions to common problems. All questions in this category must be answered to be considered as a complete submission and to be eligible for short-listing. Questions 1. Out of the following 21 smart solutions, select 3 solutions that should be applied to all Indian cities and provide a brief write-up (max. 50 words) to explain why. 2. Describe a ‘smart’ idea that you have seen in some other city(anywhere in the world) that you would like to see replicated in your own city. ‘Smart idea’ means doing more with less. 3. Describe 3 ways that Indian cities can reduce the gap between rich and poor. 4. List out 5 essential facts about your local municipal corporation that should be available to all citizens. Entry Deadline • Entries may be submitted online on the mygov.in portal latest by 23.59 hours (11.59 pm) on Saturday, 20th June 2015. Evaluation The submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria: • Do-ability (50%) • Innovation (50%) Award Two winners in each category will be awarded a citation from the Prime Minister at the Smart City Mission Launch on June 25th, 2015 at VigyanBhavan, New Delhi, along witha cash prize of the following amounts: • Rs. 40,000 - First Prize • Rs. 25,000 - Second Prize The winning ideas would be shared with the 100 SmartCities as potentiallyimplementablesolutions and will be considered for pilot • All questions in a particular category must be answered to be considered as a complete submission and to be eligible for short-listing. • The participants(s) entries will be judged for each category independently and on merit. In case of short listing in more than one category, a participant will receive prize money for one category only. • The length of each answer is limited to 250 words or less. Click here for Terms & Conditions and details of Prize amount
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Vikas Tripathi
Vikas Tripathi 11 years 2 weeks ago
4. Five essential facts about my local municipal corporation that should be available to all citizens: 1. Transparency in all municipal operations. 2. A dedicated facility to put common voice at the front without the involvement of middlemen who are in between. 3. Safety and Security for even common people when in need not just for VIPs and V VIPs. 4. City Development should be made equal to all areas and divisions. 5. Unified education system that is not based on gender or social class.
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Kedarpratap Patil
Kedarpratap Patil 11 years 2 weeks ago
5 essential facts Local municipal corporations 1) all services should be delivered as a guranteed service to its all citizen 2) efficient public transport 3) Pure drinking water 4) efficient public Health system 5) efficient waste management
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Kedarpratap Patil
Kedarpratap Patil 11 years 2 weeks ago
3 ways that Indian cities can reduce the gap between Rich and Poor- 1) Affordable housing for poor and rich in the same society, locality, premises (without separating them in the SRA, MHADA) 2) making Efficient, smooth and affordable multi- modal public transport,(as we see in the Local trains) (in some areas making available only public transport) 3) efficient, effective public Health Services
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Kedarpratap Patil
Kedarpratap Patil 11 years 2 weeks ago
SMART ideas- 1)waste water management is a horrible problem.Instead of draining it into the river or sea water, treat it to reuse for non drinking purposes.It will also reduce the drainage problem. (this has been going in Singapore) 2) providing pure drinking water & non drinking purposes through separate pipelines. So that the expenditure of purification of water for drinking, will reduce.
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Kedarpratap Patil
Kedarpratap Patil 11 years 2 weeks ago
A Smart city -3 solutions- 9)Recycling and Reduction of C & D Waste- waste management through separate collection of plastic, organic (dry x wet) waste from house to processing unit to it reycle it to create energy. Most important is to reduce the waste creation 12) Integrated Multi-Modal Transport-Maximum Integrated Multi-Modal Public Transport is an answer 21) skill development centres-only a skilled citizen make a SMART city
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Abhishek Bhardwaj
Abhishek Bhardwaj 11 years 2 weeks ago
in delhi there r lots of open sewers which smells foul. this foul smell is nothing but combination of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, methane, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. I was wondering can't v separate out methane from it which is a main ingredient for CNG. in order to do so we need to cover all the sewers which also helps in beautifying our cities and some extra space for markets, parking, bus dippo and other public facilitating areas.
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Vikas Tripathi
Vikas Tripathi 11 years 2 weeks ago
3. a) By breaking down the social barriers and bringing conversations across the income divide. b) Raising the minimum wage for the poor to step out from the circle of poverty to the circle of common life that has freedom of life and expressions. c) Donating resources and assets of livelihood to the poor like solid built houses, electricity, employment, education, healthcare facilities and bringing all under one common roof to bridge the gap between rich and poor. Relying on a unified nation.
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Vijay C_1
Vijay C_1 11 years 2 weeks ago
Recently Tata built roads in Jamshedpur with the use of plastic waste which reduced the cost and use of bitumen by 30-40%. Then the drainage system of London and New York can be adopted. Rooftop solar panels in terrace of houses can reduce the dependence on government for power. And a subsidy of 50% should be given to encourage it. The rich poor gap can be reduced by providing good education to all by fully implementing RTE ACT,to improve quality if living in slums apartments can be built.
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Udhaya kumar
Udhaya kumar 11 years 2 weeks ago
Hi All, Will you please post this message in the known groups so that it gets circulated, thanks. This is the season of fruits like mango, jamun, jack,chikoo,lichi fruit etc. My request to all of us is kindly don't throw the seeds, wash them and keep it in a plastic pouch in ur car. Whenever you go out and find barren land while travelling, on a highway throw these seeds. They will germinate easily the coming monsoon. If with this act we can contribute even a single tree each to our world
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