Monday, 5 August 2013

IIT Bombay and IIT Roorkee to help the government build smart cities

The HRD ministry will partner with IIT Bombay
and IIT Roorkee for building ‘smart cities’
equipped with better amenities.
A roadmap for this collaboration was devised
in Delhi recently to help identify themes
related to city management by integrating
technology with governance.
"The future lies in how we create and manage
cities  in a sustainable and inclusive manner
through smart urban planning. IITs and IIMs
being the premier institutions, have significant
knowledge pool to create a vision, strategies
and plan of implementation in an integrated
manner," HRD minister Pallam Raju told HT.
"Urbanisation is growing at a fast pace in
India. We now require qualified people to plan,
build and manage mega-cities efficiently," IIT
Bombay director Prof. Devang Khakhar said
adding "Our work will not just be confined to
engineering and science but will also extend to
design, social science and policy issues. We
hope to build linkages with other universities
and institutes as well as municipal authorities
to collaboratively make a difference in this
important area."
IIT Roorkee Director Pradipta Banerji said the
objective of this collaboration was to bring
together a variety of institutions and people
with different sectoral focuses on a common
platform.
On the areas that IIT Roorkee would be
interested in having collaborations in, he said:
"Our primary interest is in integrated
development of Uttarakhand. We will work
together with our collaborators to create a hill
and heritage development plan that does not
affect the local ecology. These will include
focus on use of smart technology in
transportation, water and electricity supply,
hazard identification, infrastructure
development and other issues that will meet
the social aspirations of the people."

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