Bhubaneswar bags third spot in World Smart City Awards 2016:
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar came on as the second runners up in the World Smart City Expo Awards 2016 held at Barcelona on Wednesday.
The awards were selected under many categories after an unprecedented number of entries this year. The cities were shortlisted based on their cutting edge technologies for resolving urban challenges and...
more... improving life of citizens.
Bhubaneswar was awarded for achieving social equity through new urbanism in action. It had already won the best smart city award in the country earlier this year.
The city administration had proposed the a model for developing and achieving social equity by placing children at the centre of its transformation building upon the New Urban Agenda’s three legged approach-local fiscal systems, urban planning, and basic services and infrastructure.
Kenya’s capital Nairobi is the winner of the challenge while Chennai came on the fourth spot, City Mayor AN Jena told newsmen. As many as 250 cities of 45 countries took part in the contest.