Smart Cities Award Contest
I n an increasingly growing scenario of performance and competition, mere rhetoric or planning on papers and files but taking little or no action do not bag awards and rewards and it is only how much one keeps pace with the situation and pursues an ambition of innovative ideas and creative projects that things matter in the changed situations. In other words, India Smart Cities Award Contest which is an annual event hosted by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs wherein 100 Smart Cities participate , both Srinagar and Jammu have proved a damp squib and failed to bag any reckoning in the All India competition which has been held every year since 2018. Does it mean that in areas that matter a lot like Social Aspects, Governance , Culture, Urban Environment, Sanitation, Economy , Built Environment, Water, Mobility and Sustainable Business Model of Integrated Command and Control Centres all within the Projects Category , we might have done a lo