mcfbd.com Share Your Ideas & Suggestions For Smart City 2015 : Faridabad Municipal Corporation

Organization : Faridabad Municipal Corporation
Service Name : Share Your Ideas & Suggestions For Smart City 2015
Applicable For : Citizens
Applicable City : Faridabad
Submission Last Date : 31st October, 2015.

Website : https://faridabad.nic.in/municipal-corporation-faridabad/
Submit Your Suggestion : https://www.mygov.in/

Share Your Ideas & Suggestions :

Faridabad, one of the oldest cities of the Haryana state is situated in the Faridabad district. The city is named after its founder, Shaikh Farid, the treasurer of Jahangir.

Related : Mumbai Municipal Corporation Smart City Initiative Through Citizen Participation 2015 : www.statusin.in/10428.html

It is also the largest city in the Delhi Metropolitan Area. Faridabad has become a major industrial hub of Haryana, over the years and has grown enormously during the last couple of decades, because a large number of industries that have been growing in number and immense development that has occurred the city.

Faridabad has been shortlisted as one of the hundred cities by Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) to participate in the Smart City Challenge. Under which, Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF) is required to prepare a Smart City Proposal (SCP) to compete for its position among first top twenty smart cities in India and formulate its own vision, sub-goals and strategies through active consultation of its citizens and all stakeholders.

All the citizens or stakeholders are hereby invited to share and suggest their ideas, vision and Smart City Solutions to transform their city into smart city.You may post your views on any of the topics listed below or can share any other important topic that you feel is important and shall help in achieving the goal of making Faridabad

Topic – Smart Faridabad:
i. Sub Topic : Environment Friendly Faridabad
ii. Sub Topic : Slum free Faridabad
iii. Sub Topic : Inclusive Faridabad
iv. Sub Topic : Liveable Faridabad
v. Sub Topic : Smooth Movement across Faridabad
vi. Sub Topic : Healthy Faridabad
vii. Sub Topic : Safe Faridabad
viii. Sub-Topic : Digital Faridabad
ix. Sub-Topic : Smart Industries

Citizens are requested to actively participate in the discussions and contribute towards making Faridabad a smart city.

Last date:
Kindly post your views till 31st October, 2015.

Smart City Features :
Some typical features of comprehensive development in Smart Cities are described below.
i. Promoting mixed land use in area based developments–planning for ‘unplanned areas’ containing a range of compatible activities and land uses close to one another in order to make land use more efficient.

The States will enable some flexibility in land use and building bye-laws to adapt to change;
ii. Housing and inclusiveness – expand housing opportunities for all;

iii. Creating walkable localities –reduce congestion, air pollution and resource depletion, boost local economy, promote interactions and ensure security.

The road network is created or refurbished not only for vehicles and public transport, but also for pedestrians and cyclists, and necessary administrative services are offered within walking or cycling distance;

iv. Preserving and developing open spaces – parks, playgrounds, and recreational spaces in order to enhance the quality of life of citizens, reduce the urban heat effects in Areas and generally promote eco-balance;

v. Promoting a variety of transport options – Transit Oriented Development (TOD), public transport and last mile para-transport connectivity;

vi. Making governance citizen-friendly and cost effective – increasingly rely on online services to bring about accountability and transparency, especially using mobiles to reduce cost of services and providing services without having to go to municipal offices.

Forming e-groups to listen to people and obtain feedback and use online monitoring of programs and activities with the aid of cyber tour of worksites;

vii. Giving an identity to the city – based on its main economic activity, such as local cuisine, health, education, arts and craft, culture, sports goods, furniture, hosiery, textile, dairy, etc;

viii. Applying Smart Solutions to infrastructure and services in area-based development in order to make them better. For example, making Areas less vulnerable to disasters, using fewer resources, and providing cheaper services.