Smart traffic signals planned from Airport Square to LIC Square and Pardi in the city
Nagpur: In one more step in making Nagpur a Smart City, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) special purpose vehicle for executing Smart City Project — Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited (NSSCDCL) — approved a host of decisions combining health and education along with hygiene. The NSSCDCL also plans to install new aesthetic LED traffic signals from Airport Square to LIC Square on Wardha Road, and between LIC Square and Pardi on Central Avenue (CA).
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Dealing with the nagging problem of garbage disposal, 400 smart bins would be set up across the city. But, a major decision taken during the meeting of Board of Directors of NSSCDCL was to build 100 e-toilets across Nagpur. About 50 places have been identified, mostly the market places and crowded streets, so that citizens do not face trouble while out in the open. This would also tackle the menace of open urinals that have sprang-up at many places owing to lack of public utility spaces.
The on-line meeting of the Board of Directors was held on Tuesday and was presided by Dr Sanjay Mukherjee, Mentor, NSSCDCL and Chairperson, Smart City, Mumbai, Municipal Commissioner and Administrator Radhakrishnan B, Chinmay Gotmare, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and others.
Gotmare said that the city is in dire need of these toilets and its cost is pegged at Rs. 11.68 crore and they are going to be constructed with the help of NMC. Three civic body libraries would be upgraded and converted into smart e-libraries and they include Deendayal Upadhyay Library Laxmi Nagar, Kasturba Library, Sadar, and Kundanlal Gupta Library, Imamwada. The Board of Directors also decided to upgrade six schools of NMC and they would be renovated and provided computers with internet and other facilities so that students of those schools can excel in studies, felt Gotmare.
Smart City will also install 400 smart bins with sensors in 200 places. The main objective behind this is to cover the black spots as well as to improve the quality of the city and make it clean and beautiful. The bins will be installed by removing the defects found in the smart bins that were installed earlier on Smart Street and they would definitely benefit the citizens.
The Board of Directors has decided to create a mobile app and provide 49 services in accordance with the Maharashtra Public Service Rights Rules 2015. The decision to set up police booths at various places in Nagpur has been taken by the Board.
As per initial plan, traffic signals will have colour LEDs, which will appear on traffic signals. Entire system will be automatic. NSSCDCL Board has also taken a decision to develop automated multi-level two-wheeler parking plazas at Anaj Market in Itwari, supermarket in Sitabuldi, and at Gandhisagar lake. Now, a request for proposal of these two projects will be prepared. NSSCDCL board also took the decision to develop bicycle stands at 75 spots across the city.
