Thursday, May 12, 2016

Mayor Sharma addresses the Mayor’s conclave in the second Smart City India 2016 Expo.


SDMC brings positive change with the help of IT and its long term policies.
The development of entire SDMC area as per standards of the Smart City.
The SDMC Mayor Sh. Shyam Sharma today delivered his address in the Mayor’s conclave in the 02nd Smart City India 2016 Expo at Pragati Maidan New Delhi.  On this occasion Sh. Sharma stated that the history of Municipal Corporation and Local Self Govt. is quite old.  The Municipal Corporation of Delhi was constituted in 1958 with a legislation of Parliament.  The challenges before the Corporations have risen with coming up of more and more new colonies and surging population.  Sh. Sharma stated that he feels pleasure in informing that the SDMC has brought positive changes with the usage of IT and its long term policies.
While elaborating the concept of Smart Cities Sh. Sharma stated that under the 1st phase of transformation, 20 cities have been included in the list of Smart Cities to be developed.  There is only one civic body from Delhi – New Delhi Municipal Council which will be developed as a Smart City. Despite this the entire area of SDMC is being developed on the lines of the standards prescribed for the Smart Cities.  The Mayor gave details of a few initiatives taken in this direction.  The initiatives are reforms in property tax calculation and collection and use of IT, replacement of the conventional street lighting with the LED lights resulting in the saving of 49 Cr. along with 5.5. Cr. units of electricity and installation of solar penals over Mpl. Bldgs resulting in  the savings of 4 lakh unit of electricity.  The 02 initiatives have brought down carbon emission by 42,000 tones.  Apart from these the SDMC has been using recycled water for greening its parks and has also developed a unique CCTV network to monitor the attendance of the teachers and students in the schools and Mid day meal programme.
Sh. Sharma while giving details of future projects stated that the SDMC is all set to implement new initiatives in the field of Health and Education.   He also stated that after trifurcation of the unified MCD the Corporations have been demeaned.  Despite this the SDMC is giving priority to its developmental activities

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