As per the Smart City Mission Guidelines citizens engagement is mandatory activity at all level with respect to preparation of smart city challenge stage 2 proposal. Accordingly prior to finalisation of consultant GMC has undertaken the following activities:
• Seminar organised on 7/9/2015 at Circuit House, Guwahatiinvolving various departmental officials for disseminating and discussions on the smart city proposal after selection Guwahati in Stage-1 competition
• Stakeholders meeting organised at KanaklalBarua Auditorium State Museum on 21/9/2015 with educational institutes,MP/MLAs/Councillors and other think tank group.
• Talk on Radio/TV was also carried out on 30/9/2015
• Advertisement in all leading Newspapers
• Site visit conducted including interaction with citizens of Guwahati for in-depth understanding of their problem areas to be included in proposal for development
• Questionnaire cum feedback forms were circulated in all the 31 wards under GMC for identifying the areas for further development
• Leaflet Distribution
• Essay Writing Competition on “My Dream Guwahati” organised at SrimantaSankaradevaKalakshetra, Guwahati on 31/10/2015, where in around 53 Students from reputed schools and colleges participated.
• Seminar on Smart City Guwahati organised by Retired PHED Engineers at Rotary Club Guwahati on 06/11/15 wherein their vast experience in infrastructure development, city planning and its allied sector along with smart solutions were discussed in details
• Technocrat Seminar on Smart City Guwahati organised on 07/11/2015 for sharing the goals, vision, city wide concept plan, self-assessment form including key performance indicators wherein Sr. officials from various departments/NGOs/Institutions attended and shared their views for preparation of qualitative and competitive proposal
• Smart Lab were setup at the fair organised on 14th November, 2015- Children Day Celebration at Sarusajai Stadium and SrimantaSankaradevaKalakshetra, Guwahati wherein around 10,000 children participated from various schools. Awareness camps through smart labs created awareness among the children as well as teachers about the smart city areas for development including smart solutions. Large no. of feedback form/polling form were got filled online as well as offline during this gathering
• Online discussions, essay writing competition and polling at Mygov.in has been operational wherein adequate no. of response to consider various areas/sectors for development were identified by the citizens along with feasible, long term sustainable smart solutions/suggestion were received. This areas will be considered for its compliance in the proposal preparation
• Audio/Video/Photographs along with brief write up uploaded on Mygov.in web portal for all the above citizens engagement activities carried out for preparation of proposal
• Mass level publicity for areas for development with smart solutions, suggestions were invited through dynamic and interactivewebsite, Facebook account/page, twitter, emails and MyGov.in web portal. Abstract of Extent of citizens coverage along with their responses/suggestions/``comments are enclosed for ready reference.
Based on discussions with stakeholders, technocrats and officials from Departments at different levels, the draft proposal has been finalized and enclosed. Your comments and suggestions are requested.
Guwahati Smart City Draft Proposal
