As the country is moving towards digitisation in every field including education and governance, the citizen in Bareilly need a platform to upload and acess digital content. A Digital Library is proposed for all the people in the city who don’t have access to reliable content, says Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, Municipal Commissioner, Bareilly Municipal Corporation and Chief Executive Officer, Bareilly Smart City Limited, in conversation with Ahmad Shariq Khan of Elets News Network (ENN).
What is your vision for developing Bareilly as a Smart City?
New Bareilly’s vision addresses real-world issues and challenges the citizens and the city are facing. Specifically, it considers how emerging transportation data, technologies and applications can be integrated with existing systems across a city—helping both city and the citizens achieve goals for safety, mobility, sustainability, and economic vitality in an increasingly complex, interdependent and multimodal world.
Tell us about the projects identified under the Smart Cities Mission to realise this vision?
The components of Bareilly Smart City are divided in two parts which are Area Based Development (ABD) interventions and pan-city interventions. The total area covered under ABD is 1,270 acres. For the development of the city, the following projects were identified:
- Development of an Integrated Urban Infrastructure
- A digital library
- Development of a handicraft centre which will including a resource centre, design research and skill centre along with an exhibition and sale facility
- A Central Business District
- Provision of Rooftop Solar panel on government buildings
- Retrofitting of government schools with smart classes and associated infrastructure for e-shiksha
- Decentralised STP’s at various locations in the city
- Decentralised STP’s at various locations in the city
- GIS-based mapping and database digitisation and integration
- Smart advertisement boards
- Solar-based water ATMs
- Construction of smart public toilets
- SCADA system for sewerage scheme with 70 MLD STP
- An accelerator/incubation centre for promoting start-up and entrepreneurs
- An accelerator/incubation centre for promoting start-up and entrepreneurs
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