FICCI Smart City Workshop to make Naya Raipur

FICCI along with Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) organised a round-table discussion on ‘Emerging Technologies in ICT’ here today. The workshop aimed to seek input on the innovations and the technological advancements, beyond the elementary ICT products & services that may help developing the Greenfield city into a smartly planned and world class city in India. The city has established basic infrastructure spending Rs 6000 crore and has 20,000 residents which is expected to grow to 3.5 Lacs by 2031 as per the development plan of NRDA. NRDA is in the process of implementing Command and Control Centre. The other connecting components to this would be traffic management, city surveillance, SCADA for water & energy and E-Governance applications. Mr. NSN Murty, Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers detailed the PAN City Project.

He mentioned that NRDA City Architecture is based on open architecture and we are now looking at solutions which can leverage the ICT and open Data architecture. ICT majors like IBM, Microsoft, Google, Quantum, Cisco, KPIT, Tejas Network and a mix of start-ups, transport mobility and payment infrastructure companies contributed in the discussion. Suggestions like Aadhar based service delivery, City identity management creating job opportunities and innovation hubs for new start-ups. NRDA will incorporate the inputs in their Smart City Proposal. FICCI is working with NRDA as a handholding agency that may facilitate industry engagements for Naya Raipur Smart City Project. FICCI has signed an MOU with Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) on 24th January 2017.