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Challenges that citizens face to turn Bhubaneswar into a Smart City?

Challenges that citizens face to turn Bhubaneswar into a Smart City?
Start Date :
Oct 08, 2015
Last Date :
Nov 16, 2015
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Shortlisted as one of the smart cities, Bhubaneswar today is a model of livability evident by the city’s stable growth rate in the recent decades. On the other hand, the city ...

Shortlisted as one of the smart cities, Bhubaneswar today is a model of livability evident by the city’s stable growth rate in the recent decades. On the other hand, the city faces challenges that are negative consequences of urbanization faced by many cities. We now suffer from a growing threat to losing our open spaces to urban sprawl, increasing private vehicle ownership, and recently being ranked 25th among the 28 state capitals under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

The challenge now before us - in shaping the Bhubaneswar for the next generation - is to strategically leverage our strengths as we grow, while turning around the negatives. With your participation, the Bhubaneswar Smart City Proposal will provide solutions to ensure a sustainable, inclusive and resilient future for all its citizens. In order to succeed in this ambitious mission. WE need YOU!

We invite the residents of Bhubaneswar to share their views and thoughts on the most pressing challenges that the citizens face to turn Bhubaneswar into a Smart City?

Visit: www.smartcitybhubaneswar.gov.in

Share your views by 15th November, 2015.

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Sameeer Sahu
Sameeer Sahu 10 years 7 months ago
Lot of Odiya people are successful and staying outside state or country, we need to reach out to them for good ideas/suggestions and encourage them to invest in startup companies in state which will increase employability and will contribute to Per capita of state.If India can depend on US Indians, why we should not leverage in this model.Govt should take initiative to devop manufacturing,Auto, Pharma industries by setting up Industrial Parks. Also tourism is a sector which can give good revenue
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Sameeer Sahu
Sameeer Sahu 10 years 7 months ago
strict rules need to be implemented in all areas, initially there will be resistance, but later on things will fall in place. To involve local influential representatives who can promote smar city drives at pocket level. Other major infra - roads,parking etc Govt need to take care.
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Sameeer Sahu
Sameeer Sahu 10 years 7 months ago
Bbsr has a great potential to be developed as smart city, as the city is in growing and developing stage,lot of initiatives can be taken so that it will not face issues in long run which other cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata etc face. For a city to be smart, everythins needs to be smar as our friend Dwaipayan mentioned. For this it should be a joint step ie. Govt + citizens. Example; If Govt is developing park and citizens dont maintain it, there is no point.
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Dwaipayan Pattanaik
Dwaipayan Pattanaik 10 years 7 months ago
The road design and planning has to improve in Bhubaneswar. To make it smart, in my view, it has to have following in three phases. First: • No manual traffic signaling • No road-side squatters or venders • Roads free from Cows, dogs and other stay animals • Proper laneing • Vendor free foot paths • Separate zones for vending kiosks
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Dwaipayan Pattanaik
Dwaipayan Pattanaik 10 years 7 months ago
Second: • No big trees on highway sides or median • Only waste level shrubs or wide barricades in the medians to obstruct front lights, but allow visibility • Easy entry and exit to branch roads from High ways • No vehicular intersection in major squares • Pedestrian under-passes or over-bridges (with escalators)
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Dwaipayan Pattanaik
Dwaipayan Pattanaik 10 years 7 months ago
Third: • Very wide bicycle and tricycle tracks (unlike western countries, we have tricycles or paddle rickshaws, for which the cycle track should cater) • Separate utility corridor in Greenfield as well as some Redevelopment areas • In retrofit and some redevelopment areas existing utility to be kept intact by keeping the road level constant and annual repair through scrapping and relaying blacktop • Signals, cameras, Lights, overbridges, underpass, and even roads should be connected by IoT
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Sourav Mondal_5
Sourav Mondal_5 10 years 7 months ago
It is always said that "The revolution starts at home". BMC has taken many initiatives for their citizen such as the ongoing 'Open Defecation Free (ODF) City" mission under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Before reaching out to its citizen, BMC ensured that all its staffs are having a toilet in their home and using it. This is a huge step. Now, BMC needs to take another step – “Quit The Spit!”
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Manas Ranjan Pal_5
Manas Ranjan Pal_5 10 years 7 months ago
Traffic control is also a big issue.The main problem faced by common people is that the autos stop on the edge of the roads and on the centre of road without looking the back, suddenly they break the vehicle and turn all of a sudden towards the edge which is an inconvenience to the others. Specific stands where the auto can stop and people can hire should be developed in different areas.
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