THIS CITY wins the Best Smart City award & 6 other awards at India Smart Cities Award

New Delhi, Aug 26: Indore, which has been the cleanest city for the past six years in a row, got another feather on its cap to bag the best "National Smart City Award" of 2022, for exemplary performance among the 100 smart cities.

 

Surat and Agra have emerged as the second and third winners among the cities in the fourth edition of India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC). New Town bagged two awards - second prize in mobility and third in built environment.

 

 

As per the results of last year, which were announced on Friday, MP and Tamil Nadu emerged as the first and second best performers respectively among the states while Rajasthan and UP have jointly bagged the third slot. Among the Union Territories, Chandigarh has got the highest score.

 

In an official release, the housing and urban affairs ministry said President Droupadi Murmu would felicitate the winners on September 27 in Indore.

Indore has been the top performer in all the missions of the urban affairs ministry.

 

Notably, the results come at a time when Madhya Pradesh is heading for the assembly polls.

 

Interestingly, the NDMC area in Delhi, which falls under the central government and is one of the municipal areas selected for Smart City, has not bagged any award under 12 different categories. Reports suggest that NDMC did not participate in the contest.

 

Among the cities, Indore bagged six awards; followed by four by Agra; three each by Surat, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh, and two each by Jabalpur, New Town Kolkata and Raipur. Out of the total proposed 7,938 projects under the scheme, 76% worth Rs 1.11 lakh crore have been completed and the remaining 1,894 projects will be completed by next June.

 

 

The India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC) is organized under the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. This is one of the important activities initiated under the Mission, where pioneering city strategies, projects and ideas are recognized to award the exemplary performance, enable peer-peer learning and disseminate best practices.

 

In the past, the ISAC has witnessed three editions in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The fourth edition of the ISAC was launched in April 2022 during the ‘Smart Cities-Smart Urbanization’ event in Surat.