NDMC to beat deadline on Smart City projects

The New Delhi Municipal Council’s (NDMC) is going to complete its smart city project before the 2020 deadline with most of the work getting into implementation mode by this October, the civic body’s chairman Naresh Kumar said.

He gave this assurance during a meeting convened on Saturday by the Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra to review the implementation of the New Delhi Municipal Council’s (NDMC) Smart City Plan.

Stressing that the New Delhi Municipal Council has set up solar panels with 3.30 MW of power generation capacity on building roofs, Mr Kumar suggested the ministry to consider allowing it to install solar panels on central government office buildings either for free or nominal charge.

During the meeting, timelines for various projects under the Centre’s Smart City Mission for the New Delhi Municipal Council were fixed.

Of the `1,800 crore Smart City Plan of the civic body, work on a range of major projects will begin in phases by October this year for which tendering is in progress, an official release said.

These include setting up of a unified command and control centre, multi-level parking at Khan Market, public bike sharing, sewage treatment plants, redesign of 13 roads totaling 31 kms, including seven leading to Connaught Place.

Implementation of other projects will begin by March next year.

These include India Investment Centre at Yashwant Place, World Class Skill Centre at Moti Bagh and a Paryatan Bhawan.