India Smart Cities Fellowship

India Smart Cities Fellowship As a part of the Smart Cities Mission, the India Smart Cities Fellowship engages young minds to deve
(4)

The cohort of 2021-22 is delighted to present ISCF Digest, Volume 5. The theme, "Gender and the Indian City," explores a...
18/11/2022

The cohort of 2021-22 is delighted to present ISCF Digest, Volume 5. The theme, "Gender and the Indian City," explores a diverse range of ideas like systemic marginalisation, gender representation through technology, governance and power structures, spatial manifestations, planning paradigms and gender, LGBTQIA+ movements, politics of every day, socio-cultural oppression, gender-sensitive nurturing, gender and public spaces and more. Therefore, highlighting the need to visualise gender as a spectrum instead of binary.

Link:https://niua.in/iscfp/downloads/Volume%205%20A.pdf

Team Biome of the India Smart Cities Fellowship Program 2021 was shortlisted to showcase their project at the Climate Ac...
14/11/2022

Team Biome of the India Smart Cities Fellowship Program 2021 was shortlisted to showcase their project at the Climate Action Hub event of the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference (UNFCC COP 27), held at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 6th to 18th November.

Smart Cities Fellows Harsha Arya and Upama Ghosh presented their project on behalf of the National Institute of Urban Affairs and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

Their project supports Urban Local Bodies to apply the concept of ecosystem services for sustainable and resilient urban development. Team Biome successfully presented their project on the Water and Gender Day (14th November) of COP 27 at the Action Hub - Sycamore, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Congratulations on doing the fellowship proud Team Activate (Kaustubh Mirajkar, Ojaswini Bansal, Tarini Gupta and Vasudh...
20/10/2022

Congratulations on doing the fellowship proud Team Activate (Kaustubh Mirajkar, Ojaswini Bansal, Tarini Gupta and Vasudha Sharma)!!

Congratulations on doing the fellowship proud, Team Activate ( ) with Team Activate (Kaustubh Mirajkar, Ojaswini ...
20/10/2022

Congratulations on doing the fellowship proud, Team Activate ( )
with Team Activate (Kaustubh Mirajkar, Ojaswini Bansal, Tarini Gupta and Vasudha Sharma) is thrilled to present, “Activate Public Spaces” to the citizens of Indore.
The app is a plug in to Indore’s city app 311 and will aid citizens in transforming spaces in their neighbourhood in 3 simple steps- Identify, Ideate and Support.
टीम एक्टिवेट (कौस्तुभ मिराजकर, ओजस्विनी बंसल, तारिणी गुप्ता और वसुधा शर्मा) इंदौर के नागरिकों को "सार्वजनिक स्थानों को सक्रिय करें" (एक्टिवेट पब्लिक स्पेसेज़) पेश करने के लिए रोमांचित हैं।
ऐप इंदौर के सिटी ऐप 311 में एक प्लग इन है और नागरिकों को अपने पड़ोस में रिक्त स्थान को 3 सरल चरणों में बदलने में सहायता करेगा- पहचानें, विचार करें और समर्थन करें।
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details...

Fellows from the 2021-'22 cohort are exhilarated to present the third chapter of the Samavesh Discourses on the 18th of ...
17/10/2022

Fellows from the 2021-'22 cohort are exhilarated to present the third chapter of the Samavesh Discourses on the 18th of October, 10 am onwards, at the Indian School of Public Policy.

Those interested; please fill the form: https://lnkd.in/d9bH8J8y

Hurry! Limited Seats Available!

Nabamalika Joardar Shashank Mishra Srajesh Gupta Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) Samavesh Paavi Kulshreshth

The Samavesh community is devoted to creating inclusive and meaningful discourses that range from policy and development...
16/10/2022

The Samavesh community is devoted to creating inclusive and meaningful discourses that range from policy and development challenges to narratives of public interest. The belief is that these discourses are essential for a democracy to sustain and thrive; therefore, a space has been created where rational lessons can take place. (https://samavesh.org.in/)

The India Smart Cities Fellowship Program (ISCFP) and the Samavesh community are organizing their first-ever ISCFP-Samavesh Summit 2022 on October 18th, 2022 to initiate inclusive conversations amongst policy and development enthusiasts. Stay tuned for more updates.

"A city's small abundant spaces have a key impact on quality of life." - William Whyte.Indian cities have underutilised ...
09/10/2022

"A city's small abundant spaces have a key impact on quality of life." - William Whyte.

Indian cities have underutilised spaces like neighbourhood parks, the land beneath flyovers, dump sites, and back lanes, which require transformation as they negatively impact the community's safety, health, and economy.

Due to Indore's high community participation rate, the city has made rapid strides in placemaking initiatives- both placemaking marathons and nurturing neighbourhood challenge- making Indore the ideal city for piloting the project.

Using Indore Smart City's official 311 app as its foundation, Team Activate (Kaustubh Mirajkar, Ojaswini Bansal, Tarini Gupta and Vasudha Sharma) is adding their plug-in, Activate Public Spaces, to the same. The addition will streamline the process of carrying out placemaking initiatives while encouraging the communities to participate in identifying underutilized spaces, sharing their ideas and support for the transformation. The support feature will redirect the users to the Indore Smart Cities CSR webpage.

Smart Cities Mission Indore Smart City

Congratulations on doing the Fellowship proud, Team Aspire!
08/10/2022

Congratulations on doing the Fellowship proud, Team Aspire!

Nashik Smart City organized a two-day workshop on September 15th and 16th, 2022, on Python training for data analytics a...
07/10/2022

Nashik Smart City organized a two-day workshop on September 15th and 16th, 2022, on Python training for data analytics and data science studies. The program was aimed at making data-driven decision-making easier for policy-makers. For this workshop, officials from various smart cities and NIUA were present.

As part of IEC activities for their project, Team Improv organized a workshop titled "Know Your City's Waste Management ...
07/10/2022

As part of IEC activities for their project, Team Improv organized a workshop titled "Know Your City's Waste Management Story!" hosted by the Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation Limited (BSCDCL) on September 23, 2022, Friday. The event was attended by 40+ students from Sagar Institute of Science, Technology and Research Centre, Ratibad Campus, Bhopal. The workshop was intended to strengthen youth understanding and raise awareness of solid waste management and the importance of waste management practices in a fun and engaging way. The workshop also had a quiz competition called "Kachron Ke Khiladi", with four contests-a quiz, an audio-visual round, a drawise, and a debate round. It was heartwarming to see the enthusiasm and sportsmanship with which the students participated and came up with promising ideas to eliminate garbage spots in the city. The winning teams were felicitated.

Team BIOME (Divya Chand, Harsha Arya, Oviya and Upama Ghosh) is working on a digital platform, an attempt to apply the k...
07/10/2022

Team BIOME (Divya Chand, Harsha Arya, Oviya and Upama Ghosh) is working on a digital platform, an attempt to apply the knowledge of ecosystem services offered by natural resources in the practical realm of urban development. Urban water bodies in Indian cities provide many ecosystem services that directly and indirectly benefit the well-being of the city’s residents. However, due to haphazard urbanization, urban water bodies undergo crucial issues such as encroachment, urban flooding, and eventual loss of water level. The city’s endeavors toward urban resilience would lead to building sustainable cities. Their initiative highlights the inclusion of the general public in the collection or generation of data, interpretation, and dissemination of outcomes for the protection and restoration of freshwater bodies. It encourages the practice of citizen science for the sustainable development of water bodies. It will provide a platform for the citizens to develop an intense knowledge of the water bodies in their cities and the government’s interventions around them for their conservation. It will also aid the city administrators in decision-making concerning future project planning and policy appraisals concerning the urban water bodies.

Team Activate, along with WRI, India and the Indore Smart City Development Limited team, promoted their upcoming app plu...
07/10/2022

Team Activate, along with WRI, India and the Indore Smart City Development Limited team, promoted their upcoming app plug-in with the Indore 311 App titled "Activate Public Spaces" in an FGD. The app plug-in aims to streamline the placemaking process while encouraging citizens to identify underutilized spaces, share their ideas, and support the transformation in financial and non-financial ways. The event was arranged to induce & spread awareness about infants, toddlers and caregiver-friendly development under MoHUA's Nurturing Neighborhoods Challenge. Over 50 people attended the event, making it the first step towards creating awareness about the product, gauging people's perceptions, and incorporating their feedback before rolling out the final product.

Cities in India have been battling the persistent issue of garbage vulnerable spots – locations prone to accumulation of...
04/10/2022

Cities in India have been battling the persistent issue of garbage vulnerable spots – locations prone to accumulation of waste. The government has successfully implemented multi-pronged efforts in several Smart Cities to address the issue. Until recently, the management and monitoring of operations under solid waste management (SWM) was done through physical and manual interventions alone. The advent of ICCCs has paved the way for digital interventions in this sector.

ICCC at Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation Limited (BSCDCL) has been working with Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) to monitor garbage collection in the city and has come up with commendable results. The city currently ranks 7 in Swachh Survekshan 2021 and aims to upgrade its practices with digital interventions.

To tackle these recurring garbage spots, Team IMPROV ( ) in partnership with BSCDCL and BMC is creating an Artificial Intelligence based dashboard for decision-makers for predicting and monitoring garbage spots. The project aims at creating a decision-support system for informed and prompt service delivery in the SWM Sector.

Rahul Kapoor .vaidya.52

03/10/2022

The Smart Cities Mission has emphasized the need to create pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, promoting walking and cycling as an integral part of urban development.

Team Enroute (Lipi Ghosh, Prakriti Saha, and Rashi Jain) is working on a tool 'Enroute' to provide digital assistance for designing 'Complete Streets.' The team is working with the Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation (winner of the 'StreetsforPeople' & 'Cycles4Change' challenges organized by MoHUA) to pilot the tool in Nagpur. The tool kit will collate all existing standards & recommendations in a single platform and suggest permutations of street amenities suitable as per the context, RoW, land use, and amenities. Enroute is envisioned to assist and hasten the decision-making process for the ULBs in the Complete Streets design.

Esri India Developer Challenge (EIDC) is Esri India's flagship developer hackathon, where developers from across the cou...
03/10/2022

Esri India Developer Challenge (EIDC) is Esri India's flagship developer hackathon, where developers from across the country are invited to ideate, innovate, and create new approaches to the world's pressing challenges. During this multi-month online challenge, participants got free access to ArcGIS Platform, a comprehensive suite of developer tools from Esri, to integrate the power of maps and location intelligence into their apps and solutions. The projects were assessed based on innovation, market readiness, location service usage, scalability, and presentation.

India Smart Cities Fellow Akruti Murhekar, as a part of Team Mystique Colab, developed the project on the Urban Monitoring Framework.

Congratulations on doing the Fellowship proud, !

Do you wish to be a part of a fun, engaging, and highly motivated team?The National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM), an ini...
30/09/2022

Do you wish to be a part of a fun, engaging, and highly motivated team?

The National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM), an initiative of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA), designed, developed, and implemented by NIUA, is looking for creative, curious, and talented individuals to join their small but growing team.
Fellows from across the country will have the opportunity to contribute to the goal of driving citizen-centric e-governance across all cities of India by playing the role of a program analyst, bridging the Mission with the State’s needs.
For more information, visit: https://niua.in/cdg/NUDM-Fellowship/

Knowing a city's strengths and weaknesses at the smallest administrative level is imperative. Currently, there is an ina...
30/09/2022

Knowing a city's strengths and weaknesses at the smallest administrative level is imperative. Currently, there is an inadequate mechanism to measure service delivery performance at the ward level, making it necessary to have a ward-level granular assessment of urban service delivery.
Under the India Smart Cities Fellowship Program (ISCFP), Team Aspire (Akruti Murhekar, Anshul Rathore, Satarupa Roy, and Vignesvar J.) has been developing the project In-WARDS for Pimpri-Chinchwad smart city. In-WARDS is a digital platform for ward level competitiveness to ensure better urban service delivery via the localization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ward-level competitiveness extends a granular assessment of the local government bodies and, in the process, also creates scope for increasing transparency and promoting grassroots democracy. Project In-WARDs entails the development of a statistical framework for assessing wards to evaluate urban service delivery, visualized through a dashboard that features the zones' service delivery status and enables comparative analysis of multiple wards. This creates scope to examine, analyze, and compare each zone across sectors by bringing them to a common assessment platform. This dashboard would facilitate informed decision-making for better service delivery, leading to sustainable and inclusive development.

Internal Mentor: Prof. Dr. Debolina Kundu
External Mentor: Davendra Verma

Knowing a city's strengths and weaknesses at the smallest administrative level is imperative. Currently, there is an ina...
30/09/2022

Knowing a city's strengths and weaknesses at the smallest administrative level is imperative. Currently, there is an inadequate mechanism to measure service delivery performance at the ward level, making it necessary to have a ward-level granular assessment of urban service delivery.
Under the India Smart Cities Fellowship Program, Team Aspire ( , ) has been developing the project In-WARDS for Pimpri Chinchwad smart city. IN-WARDS is a digital platform for ward level competitiveness to ensure better urban service delivery via localisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ward-level competitiveness extends a granular assessment of the local government bodies and, in the process, also creates scope for increasing transparency and promoting grassroots democracy. Project In-WARDs entails the development of a statistical framework for assessing wards to evaluate the urban service delivery, visualized through a dashboard that features the zones' service delivery status and enables comparative analysis of multiple wards. This creates scope to examine, analyze and compare each zone across sectors by bringing them to a common assessment platform. This dashboard would facilitate informed decision-making for better service delivery leading to sustainable and inclusive development.

Rahul Kapoor .vaidya.52 Debolina Kundu Davendra Verma

Sarayu Madhiyazhagan - an India Smart Cities Fellow participated in a photo contest on World Photography Day and won the...
13/09/2022

Sarayu Madhiyazhagan - an India Smart Cities Fellow participated in a photo contest on World Photography Day and won the second position. Organised by Solid Waste Management Round Table, Bengaluru (SWMRT), the contest aimed at encouraging people to look around and capture the current waste landscape, thereby making people conscious, while also observing the waste management scenario.

Congratulations on doing the Fellowship proud, !

Sarayu Madhiyazhagan - an India Smart Cities Fellow participated in a photo contest on World Photography Day and won the...
13/09/2022

Sarayu Madhiyazhagan - an India Smart Cities Fellow participated in a photo contest on World Photography Day and won the second position. The contest is organized by the Solid Waste Management Round Table, Bengaluru (SWMRT), and aims at encouraging people to look around and capture the current waste landscape, thereby making people more conscious while also observing the waste management scenario.

Congratulations on doing the Fellowship proud, !

At COP26, India has pledged to meet 50% of its energy demands from renewable sources. To do so, cities across India must...
12/09/2022

At COP26, India has pledged to meet 50% of its energy demands from renewable sources. To do so, cities across India must monitor their electricity consumption and renewable generation. The data will enable city administrators to plan and introduce policies integral to making climate-resilient cities.

Fellows of Team Switch, Abhishek Chatterjee and Shivam Dave are building a platform that visualizes electricity consumption and generation patterns locally. The project's main objectives are to take a step toward the country's smart grid system, support decision-making in optimizing electricity consumption by the ULBs' assets, and engage citizens in climate action.

The team has collaborated with Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC), Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Limited (UGVCL), and Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited (SCADL) to pilot the project in Ahmedabad Smart City.

Urbanization has gradually changed the physical environment, with human activities contributing to climate change. There...
07/09/2022

Urbanization has gradually changed the physical environment, with human activities contributing to climate change. Therefore, identifying the root cause and taking the necessary actions to prevent future loss is paramount. However, no toolkit exists to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies with urban development.

For the "prioritization of climate change actions" in the city's governance and master planning, Team ADAPT (Manoranjan Ghosh, Prasanna Bhangdia, and Ritika Rajput) is developing a data-driven tool for cities to manage the effects of climate change. The proposed tool has two verticals: the first will be a dashboard for decision-makers, and the second part will be a webpage for citizens. The governance product will assist decision-makers in identifying microclimate zones in the city and enable them to take the necessary actions for existing and upcoming development. The webpage for citizens will help generate awareness via gamification and aid in localizing climate actions.

The project is being piloted in Nashik with the Nashik Municipal Smart City Development Corporation Limited (NMSCDCL) and Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC). Nashik Smart City Limited is a pioneer in India in taking measures to overcome the challenges related to climate change and giving basic facilities to its people. This project will undoubtedly help the city with better decision-making.

Nashik Municipal Smart City Development Corporation Limited (NMSCDCL) organized an 'Open Street Event' today on occasion...
05/09/2022

Nashik Municipal Smart City Development Corporation Limited (NMSCDCL) organized an 'Open Street Event' today on occasion of National Sports Day (29 August) under the street4people challenge. At this event, fellow members from team Adapt conducted outreach activities for their product, which aims to develop a digital tool for Nashik City to manage the effects of climate change.

Urban Local Governments have multiple departments coordinating various services vital for cities to function efficiently...
01/09/2022

Urban Local Governments have multiple departments coordinating various services vital for cities to function efficiently. Each department has several assets that they manage. These assets directly or indirectly affect municipal services' quantitative and qualitative aspects.
Fellows of Team ASSET, Irene Anna Shaji, Nishant Raj Tonk, Shonit Nayan, and Soumya Shrivas are developing a comprehensive tool offering city governments a one-stop mapping solution for monitoring and managing their movable and immovable assets. Through digitalization and geo-tagging of assets, followed by performance analysis and risk assessment, the fellows aim to classify and document municipal assets into a single asset inventory/repository.
The team is currently collaborating with Kochi Municipal Corporation (KMC), Cochin Smart Mission Limited (CSML), and Integrated Command, Control & Communication Centre (IC4) for the development and implementation of "m-Asset," a municipal asset management tool. The product aims to increase asset efficiency, minimize maintenance costs, and explore new investment opportunities for the city of Kochi.

Kunal Kumar Rahul Kapoor Hitesh Vaidya Manpreet Singh Nabamalika Joardar Davendra Verma Santosh Tiwari



Our forefathers bought our freedom with their hard work and sacrifice. Now we must work hard to create a better nation f...
15/08/2022

Our forefathers bought our freedom with their hard work and sacrifice. Now we must work hard to create a better nation for generations that follow.

Happy 76th Independence Day!

Dedicated and enthusiastic Fellows under the aegis of the ISCFP take the pledge to join hands with Indian cities in their journey of smart and sustainable upliftment through various digital interventions across a plethora of urban governance.



"Our forefathers bought our freedom with their hard work and sacrifice. Now we must work hard to create a better nation ...
15/08/2022

"Our forefathers bought our freedom with their hard work and sacrifice. Now we must work hard to create a better nation for generations that follow."

Happy 76th Independence Day!

Enthusiastic & dedicated India Smart Cities Fellows under the aegis of ISCFP take the pledge to join hands with Indian cities in their journey of smart & sustainable upliftment through a variety of digital interventions across a plethora of urban governance.




Youth play a vital role in inculcating sustainable changes in society. They have been at the forefront of civic action a...
12/08/2022

Youth play a vital role in inculcating sustainable changes in society. They have been at the forefront of civic action and community leadership, making them a critical link in creating an egalitarian and inclusive world.

The India Smart Cities Fellowship Program, an initiative of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, which is designed, developed and implemented by the National Institute of Urban Affairs to keep young professionals; Smart City Fellows at the core of urban transformation.



Team Empower (of the India Smart Cities Fellowship Program) conducted their first citizen outreach program to spread awa...
29/07/2022

Team Empower (of the India Smart Cities Fellowship Program) conducted their first citizen outreach program to spread awareness about the Participatory Budgeting (PB) process at the Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune. The city’s PB process will take place between 1st to 31st August, 2022.
The fellows engaged in an interactive session with the students and faculty members of the institute, and also provided insights regarding the various data-driven initiatives and platforms that have been launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

कोहॉर्ट 2021 - 22 आईएससीएफ डाइजेस्ट, अंक 4 को अति उत्साह के साथ प्रस्तुत करता है | विषय- "भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप में आपदा लची...
19/07/2022

कोहॉर्ट 2021 - 22 आईएससीएफ डाइजेस्ट, अंक 4 को अति उत्साह के साथ प्रस्तुत करता है | विषय- "भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप में आपदा लचीलापन की जमीनी कहानियां", यह अंक आपदाओं , समुदायों और अन्य जिम्मेदार संस्थानों के प्रयासों को जीवंतता, प्राकृतिक दुनिया को पुनर्जीवित करने व समुदाय और आवास का एक दूसरे के ऊपर परस्पर-निर्भर रहने के प्रयासों की पड़ताल करता है |

Linkhttps://niua.in/iscfp/downloads/ISCF_Newsletter_2022_Volume%204_Hindi_2.pdf

The ISCFP fellows underwent their first project progress review meeting with the Fellowship Manager sharing their experi...
15/07/2022

The ISCFP fellows underwent their first project progress review meeting with the Fellowship Manager sharing their experiences and insights of working with cities across India and on a diverse range of projects on themes ranging from public space design, cross-departmental collaboration, blue-green assets, climate change and more.

ISCF Fellows underwent their first project progress review meeting with the Fellowship Manager, sharing their experience...
15/07/2022

ISCF Fellows underwent their first project progress review meeting with the Fellowship Manager, sharing their experiences and insights of working with cities across India and on a diverse range of projects on themes ranging from public space design, cross-departmental collaboration, blue-green assets, climate change and more.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.- George W. Bu...
13/07/2022

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
- George W. Bush

Fellows at a meet-and-greet with Shri Hardeep Singh Puri sir. The former got an opportunity to discuss their journey and prospective projects within the purview of the India Smart Cities Fellowship Program. The fellows were delighted and received best wishes from Puri sir.

The cohort of 2021-22 is ecstatic to present ISCF Digest, Volume 4. The theme, “Grassroots Narratives of Disaster Resili...
04/07/2022

The cohort of 2021-22 is ecstatic to present ISCF Digest, Volume 4. The theme, “Grassroots Narratives of Disaster Resilience in the Indian Subcontinent,” explores disasters and the efforts of communities and other responsible institutions in reviving the livability, natural world, community and habitation as an intertwined whole.

Link:https://niua.in/iscfp/downloads/ISCF_Newsletter_2022_Volume%204_R1.pdf

As a part of the Smart Cities Mission's 7th anniversary, Team Adapt stationed in Nashik celebrated by participating in a...
27/06/2022

As a part of the Smart Cities Mission's 7th anniversary, Team Adapt stationed in Nashik celebrated
by participating in a tree plantation drive. The team also presented their fellowship project on climate change adaptation & mitigation for the city to NMSCDCL officers, PMC, NGO and other consultants working with Nashik Smart City.

Team Empower stationed in Pune celebrated with their CEO, Dr Sanjay Kolte, CFO Ulka Kalaskar and CKO Anirudh Shahapure. They actively engaged with the citizens of Pune and got a conducive response regarding their project on Participatory Budgeting.

Team Enroute stationed in Nagpur conducted a plantation drive in the upcoming ABD area, visited and inspected the forthcoming affordable housing, and hosted a capacity-building program on rainwater harvesting in their installed unit.


ISCFP takes immense pride in celebrating the 46th year of the National Institute of Urban Affairs. .
25/06/2022

ISCFP takes immense pride in celebrating the 46th year of the
National Institute of Urban Affairs.

.

Smart Cities Mission celebrates seven years of driving socio-economic equity, ecology and environmental sustenance, impr...
25/06/2022

Smart Cities Mission celebrates seven years of driving socio-economic equity, ecology and environmental sustenance, improving communities' quality of life and well-being by enabling local area development and harnessing technology that leads to smart outcomes.

Smart Cities Mission

Citizen participation is at the core of achieving inclusive and sustainable cities. Team EPIC Sreenandinibanerjee and ...
20/06/2022

Citizen participation is at the core of achieving inclusive and sustainable cities. Team EPIC Sreenandinibanerjee and from the ISCFP cohort 2019 published their work in ‘Smart Cities Smart Communities’ (Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-1146-0_15) as book chapter titled: ‘Enhancing Participation for Inclusive Cities: Sustainable Action Plans for Indian Smart Cities to Re-define Public Engagement’.

The issues of building & managing sustainable cities are compounded by inefficient service delivery by ULBs, incorrect targeting of solutions to citizens, and grievance resolution. Although there have been previous attempts at institutionalizing citizen engagement, the India Smart Cities Mission, launched in 2015, implemented a distinct methodology for selecting cities, wherein cities were evaluated with Citizen Engagement as one of the scoring criteria in its “Challenge” phase. Despite the directive to engage a minimum of 1% population for consultation activities in this stage, lacunae were observed in the media, tools, and citizen engagement strategies. The authors worked at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on a year-long action research project to verify whether citizens’ inputs to create smart communities in the proposed Smart Cities were incorporated into the final Smart Cities projects. To create sustainable, scalable citizen engagement plans for cities, the authors implemented 14 strategies in 2019 in Chandigarh (selected as the pilot) for 2 months while targeting stakeholders and citizen partners among the populace. With these primary findings and successful worldwide best practices, the authors created stepwise implementable action plans for Indian cities to enhance civic participation for smarter community planning of projects. These action plans intend to deepen any reader/user’s understanding of smart and sustainable governance which will aid them in mapping citizens’ needs. In the course of building these plans, the authors have devised a toolkit that will be useful before planning any engagement activity in the city by the ULB.

Read more at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1146-0_15

Address

Delhi

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when India Smart Cities Fellowship posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Videos

The Smart Cities Mission has emphasized the need to create pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, promoting walking and cycling as an integral part of urban development. Team Enroute (Lipi Ghosh, Prakriti Saha, and Rashi Jain) is working on a tool 'Enroute' to provide digital assistance for designing 'Complete Streets.' The team is working with the Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation (winner of the 'StreetsforPeople' & 'Cycles4Change' challenges organized by MoHUA) to pilot the tool in Nagpur. The tool kit will collate all existing standards & recommendations in a single platform and suggest permutations of street amenities suitable as per the context, RoW, land use, and amenities. Enroute is envisioned to assist and hasten the decision-making process for the ULBs in the Complete Streets design. #completestreets #Streets4People #SmartCity #SmartCitiesMission #MoHUA_India #Niua #nagpursmartcity #indiasmartcitiesfellowship #streetforpeople #CycleForAll #HealthyStreet

ISCF 2018-19: Aspirations
ISCF 2018-19: Aspirations

Watch a few Fellows of the ISCF 2018-19 cohort speak about their expectations from the Fellowship. To know more about the program click on the link below, https://smartnet.niua.org/iscfip/

Shortcuts

Share

Category

Nearby government services

Other Government Organizations in Delhi

Show All

Comments

Save blue, live green! Today, on World Water Day, let us focus on conserving every drop.

The India Smart Cities Fellowship is determined to bring about a change by developing projects to ensure water management.

Project Conserve, piloted in Jaipur, put together an app aimed at aiding smart cities to achieve water security, with water conservation being at the heart of the solution. The tool will act as a decision support system for the water utility regulators, civic authorities, and other stakeholders at the ULB level.
Read more at: https://www.niua.org/iscfip/compendium/node/188

Project Revive, piloted in Chandigarh, put together a dashboard that served as a decision support system for ULBs to make informed decisions and formulate strategies by facilitating the stakeholders with both monitoring and assisting in decision-making related to urban water issues.
Read more at: https://www.niua.org/iscfip/project_team_revive.php

“Women are the real architects of society”- Harriet Beacher Stowe

India Smart Cities Fellowship Program is a platform that not only trains the leaders of tomorrow, but also allows for the collective transformation of fundamental gender power relations, by examples set within the Fellowship.

The program fosters the ideas of diversity, inclusivity, while enabling an atmosphere where all fellows belong, contribute and can thrive equally irrespective of their caste, class or gender!

The current cohort (2021-22) has a significant percentage of women (62%) coming from diverse backgrounds, including architecture, developmental studies, planning, public policy, urban design and other allied disciplines. Not only that, our boss lady Nabamalika Joardar has been managing the program ever since its inception.
So, this Women’s Day, let’s celebrate women and take a step in the direction of change we wish to see.

ISCFP wishes you a happy Women's Day.

Fostering the idea of Work-Play balance the informal engagement team initiated the Fellowship Premier League (FPL) - A 3-week engagement, where fellows of the 2021-22 cohort are divided into 4 teams; Courageous Centaur, Dominant Dragons, Headstrong Hippogriff, and Proud Pegasus. Each unit has to participate in cultural, intellect nurturing, and sports activities. At the end of 3 weeks, a winning team will be announced.

FPL Day 1 was an intra-cohort cricket match between Dominant Dragons and Proud Pegasus- which concluded with the latter’s win.

Stay tuned for more!

Meet the fellows of ISCF 2021-22!

Abhishek’s interests lie in the fields of urban sustainability, climate resilience and socio-ecological history.

Akanksha’s interests lie in the fields of urban governance, infrastructure planning and development.

Akruti’s interests lie in the fields of climate action, equitable and inclusive planning, governance, climate resilience, and Sustainable urban development

Anna’s interests lie in the fields of urban land management and affordable housing.

Anshul’s interests lie in the fields of sustainable urban development and inclusive cities.

Aparajita’s interests lie in the fields of solid waste management, urban political ecology and affordable housing for the socio-economically marginalized communities.

Divya Bharti’s interests lie in the fields of public policy, governance, participatory processes, climate change, sustainable development, and social change.

Divya Chand’s interests lie in the fields of southern urbanism, affordable housing, and inclusive and sustainable development.

Harsha’s interests lie in the fields of environmental studies.

Himangshu’s interests lie in the fields of governance, citizen engagement and housing.

Irene’s interests lie in the fields of city governance, citizen services delivery, and operations and management.

Kastury’s interests lie in the fields of universal accessibility of public spaces, infrastructure development, environment, climate change, and public policy.

Kaustubh’s interests lie in the fields of public open spaces, transportation and community-based design.

Lipi’s interests lie in the fields of education, multidimensional poverty and inequality, and climate change.

Manoranjan’s interests lie in the fields of climate action, spatial planning, rural-urban and peri-urban linkages.

Nikhil’s interests lie in the fields of urban/habitat design, indigenous studies, the urbanism of Himalayan settlements, urban art, agro-ecology, eco-feminism, heritage conservation, sustainable de-development, gender and q***r studies, community participation, and earth architecture.

Nishant’s interests lie in the fields of architecture, urban planning, road safety design, urban governance, data analytics, and infrastructure planning and development.

Ojaswini’s interests lie in the fields of urban mobility, public space design and cultural aspects of a city.
Oviya’s interests lie in the fields of sustainable social inclusion and equitable cities.

Prakriti’s interests lie in the fields of urban design, user experience and interface design.

Prasanna’s interests lie in the fields of sustainable development, climate action and disaster resilience planning.

Rahul’s interests lie in the fields of ethnography, placemaking, urban restructuring, and the politics of space.

Rashi’s interests lie in the fields of architectural journalism, art, heritage and tourism management, research design, entrepreneurship, stock market and in the domain of mental health and well-being.

Ritika’s interests lie in the fields of small-town urbanism, urban water management, ecology, climate action, sustainability and rural development.

Roshni’s interests lie in the fields of circular design, sustainable practices, integration of cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence.

Sarayu’s interests lie in the fields of energy and urban planning and self-sufficient economy.

Satarupa’s interests lie in the fields of smart and sustainable infrastructure development, land use transport integration, heritage and tourism development, neighbourhood planning, community participation, and urban governance.

Soumya’s interests lie in the field of urban policy, land management, and housing and real estate.

Shaurya’s interests lie in the field of urban placemaking, open-source design processes and application of analytics in architecture.

Shivam’s interests lie in the field of electric vehicles, micro-grid networks and renewable energy sources.

Shonit’s interests lie in the fields of local government finance, intergovernmental fiscal transfers , e-governance, business, environment and human rights .

Swati’s interests lie in the fields of sustainable development, neighbourhood planning and community participation.

Tarini’s interests lie in the fields of education, environment, gender, public administration and urban policy.

Upama’s interests lie in the fields of urban conservation, ecological urbanism and placemaking.

Vasudha’s interests lie in the fields of community participation, urban governance, transportation and water management.

Vignesvar’s interests lie in the fields of sustainable urban development, climate action, urban data analytics, urban policy and governance.

Yateen’s interests lie in the field of economics, education, and public policy.
Freedom came with the sacrifices of our freedom fighters, so let's pledge to be the India they wanted to see. Wish you a very Happy Republic Day!

India Smart City Fellowship is a step in the direction of the change we want to see. Fellows, determined to bring about a change, regularly come up with projects to ensure that India progresses and defines new developmental horizons.

Freedom from Emotional Distress:
Project Saksham, piloted in Pune, put together Social Emotional Learning Output (SELO), a toolkit aimed at mapping socio-emotional levels of students by measuring their performances on pre-defined parameters. The toolkit highlights the needs of students and facilitates a learning environment to develop their skills. Read more at:
https://www.niua.org/iscfip/project_team_saksham.php

Freedom from Pollution:
Project Preserve, piloted in Kochi, put together an app, “GreenMe'', aimed at creating greener and resilient cities by enabling planned green cover improvements and processes to maintain the green spaces through citizen and community participation. Read more at:
https://www.niua.org/iscfip/project_team_preserve.php

Freedom from Waste:
Zero Waste Project, piloted in Chennai, put together the India Waste Exchange. The model connects ULBs with buyers of waste, non-governmental entities like colleges, offices and schools, bulk waste generators with buyers and finally, ULBs with non-governmental entities for effective waste management. The model acts as a portal to showcase and market available waste. Read more at:
https://www.niua.org/iscfip/compendium/node/201

“Empowerment of women leads to development of a good family, good society and, ultimately, a good nation”. - APJ Abdul Kalam

Initiated by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2008, National Girl Child Day is celebrated annually on 24 January. It attempts to reaffirm the belief that every girl child is the torchbearer of , while highlighting the need to spread awareness about their rights, and foregrounding gender-based discrimination that girls face.

India Smart City Fellows of the cohorts of 2020 and 2019 have designed two tools focussed on safety, specifically targeting the city experience of women and young girls.

Working with NDMC Smart City, Social Analytics of Crime (SAC) is a tool that aggregates crime data from the police department and socio-economic data from ULBs, to help decision-makers and city administrators to visualise crime spatially and observe the relationship between various socio-economic indicators, such as literacy, employment, municipal services availability. Read more about SAC at: https://www.niua.org/iscfip/project_team_recon.php

CityPoints was developed with Bhubaneswar Smart City and is a design and assessment tool enabling city administrators to identify potential gaps in public space design, which areas of the city lack quality public spaces, and the specific areas of improvement. The tool provides citizens with a platform to rate public spaces in their city and participate in the improvement of those spaces. Read more about CityPoints at: https://www.niua.org/iscfip/compendium/node/189

#}