Municipalika 2018 opens in Mumbai

September 2018

The 15th Municipalika Exhibition and Conference in Mumbai is expanding as a 360 degrees event on city development, with the addition of Construction,...

Tags: 15th Municipalika Exhibition and Conference, IIPM, CAPEx, MEPF, Commercial, Residential, Retail, Hospitality, Logistics, SEZ, Good Governance India Foundation, Smart Cities, Canada to India, HE Nadir Patel, Smart Cities Conclave

How Smart is Your Smart City?

September 2018

A smart city is not automatically an equitable city unless its leaders take care to make it so. Some critics assert that the entire push to make citi...

Tags: Smart city, Investment, CIRES Center, SkyAlert, Singapore Smart Nation, Eluru Smart City, 22Barcelona, LPWAN, Wi-Fi coverage, City Data Exchange, Transport, GitHub, Pollution, MGI Smart Cities, DALY

Dholera: A New Era

September 2018

Greenfield Dholera industrial city is targeting industries such as defence and aero, heavy engineering, auto and auto ancillaries, general manufactur...

Tags: Greenfield Dholera, Defence, Aero, Heavy engineering, Auto, Auto ancillaries, 100 Smart Cities Mission, GDP, DSIR

We are in the process of engaging a PMC, says TH Harikumar Singh, Imphal Municipal Commissioner

September 2018

Adopting the city retrofitting approach, Imphal has been developed with the help of smart mobility, modern facilities and other smart features. Selec...

Tags: Imphal, Smart mobility, Smart Cities Challenge, SASEC road connectivity, PMC, TH Harikumar Singh, Core infrastructure projects, LED lights, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Swadesh Darshan fund, Imphal Municipal Corporation, HUDCO

We are in the process of engaging a PMC, says TH Harikumar Singh, Imphal Municipal Commissioner

September 2018

Adopting the city retrofitting approach, Imphal has been developed with the help of smart mobility, modern facilities and other smart features. Selec...

Tags: Imphal, Smart mobility, Smart Cities Challenge, SASEC road connectivity, PMC, TH Harikumar Singh, Core infrastructure projects, LED lights, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Swadesh Darshan fund, Imphal Municipal Corporation, HUDCO

13 infra projects worth Rs.21 bn launched

August 2018

With a total outlay of over Rs 21 bn, 13 urban infrastructure projects have been launched in Rajasthan, which include a 2.7-km-long elevated road pro...

Tags: Urban infrastructure projects, Smart Cities mission, AMRUT

Infrastructure pushing investment and growth in the suburban markets of Pune

July 2018

A lot of people are attempting to do a sort of medium term arbitrage on real estate. However, to borrow from commonsensical and prudent buying wisdom...

Tags: Real estate, Investment, Infrastructure, Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Pune-Bangalore Expressway, 100 Smart Cities, Commercial buildings, Tushad Dubash, Duville Estates

“Developer interests to be adequately safeguarded”

July 2018

As a special purpose vehicle (SPV), the Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation (IRSDCL) is responsible for executing the largest transit-ori...

Tags: Sanjeev Kumar Lohia, IRSDCL emphasises, IRSDCL, smart cities, EPC contract, PPP model