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Chennai - A Global Smart City in Making

Chennai - A Global Smart City in Making
Start Date :
Sep 16, 2015
Last Date :
Nov 16, 2015
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Corporation of Chennai is preparing a proposal towards Smart City Challenge which would include city wide smart urban solutions as well as identification of areas within the city ...

Corporation of Chennai is preparing a proposal towards Smart City Challenge which would include city wide smart urban solutions as well as identification of areas within the city for its implementation.

The proposal would be defined primarily based on voice of Chennai residents. An extensive citizen engagement programme is established by Corporation of Chennai to document the views and concernsfor the same.

Residents may post their opinion and ideas on civic services such as transport, parking, water supply, sanitation, energy, housing, IT solutions,health, education, safety and security. Your views, opinion and solutions on urban issues faced by Chennai would not only support a better tomorrow for Chennaites, it will also make Chennai a strong contender for getting shortlisted as one of the first 20 cities in India to implement Smart City Solutions in Phase 1.

Chennai citizen and community is its biggest strength. Let’s participate to make this proposal inclusive and meaningful for every common man, every citizen.

The last date to submit your comments is 15th November, 2015.

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Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
Initiatives that reduce energy consumption not only promote long-term environmental sustainability but likewise reduce financial outlays for energy over the long term.
Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
Municipal economic development initiatives are opportunities for encouraging low-energy, zero-carbon development, and for putting into place environment-friendly initiatives such as reduce–reuse–recycle plans.
Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
In short, achieving environmental sustainability requires that planning for climate resilience become an integral part of infrastructure planning.
Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
Through zoning codes, building codes, and permitting processes, municipalities can encourage construction processes, neighbourhood designs, and urban infrastructure that reduce energy consumption and thus financial outlays.
Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
If long-term environmental sustainability is to be achieved, the goals of the urban transport planning process must include construction of low-carbon public transport infrastructure, incentives for use of nonmotorized transport, and disincentives for using automobiles for daily commutes.
Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
Municipal land use, population density, and transportation planning decisions directly influence whether people and businesses have transport choices that allow them to save energy and money.
Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
Further private sector participation in the provision of basic services, such as water and electricity, may be forthcoming, if the components of provision of such goods to be financed by the private sector are unbundled from the components to be financed by the government.
Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
Tradable rights granting permission to use a specified quantity of a resource (e.g., water). Note that the introduction of tradable rights likewise requires establishment of a market in which such rights can be traded.
Amit Gandhi_1
Amit Gandhi_1 10 years 7 months ago
Product charges levied on products, the consumption of which pollutes the ecosystem. For example, if consumption of the product concerned pollutes surface water or groundwater either during or after consumption, the product charge levied on the good in question should equal the actual value of the damage caused.