Smart City to build 100 e-toilets, set up 400 smart bins in city
   Date :15-Jun-2022

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Staff Reporter
To plug the gaps in the scheme meant to overhaul city infrastructure for making it Smart City, the administrators of NSSCDCL approved host of decisions combining health and education along with hygiene. Starting with the nagging problem of garbage would see affixing of 400 smart bins. But, a major decision taken during the meeting of Board of Directors of Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited (NSSCDCL) was to set up 100 e-toilets across the city.
About 50 places have been identified, mostly the market places and crowded streets, so that citizens do not face trouble while out in the open. This would also tackle the menace of open urinals that have sprang-up at many places owing to lack of public utility spaces. The on-line meeting of BoD was held on Tuesday and was presided by Dr Sanjay Mukherjee, Mentor, NSSCDCL and Chairperson, Smart City, Mumbai, Municipal Commissioner and Administrator Radhakrishnan B, Chinmay Gotmare, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and others.
Other Board Members are. Aniruddha Shenwai, Ashish Mukim, Company Secretary. Bhanupriya Thakur and Chief Finance Officer.
Gotmare said that the city is in dire need of these toilets and its cost is pegged at Rs. 11.68 crore and they are going to be constructed with the help of NMC. Three civic body libraries would be upgraded and converted into smart e-libraries and they include Deendayal Upadhyay Library Laxmi Nagar, Kasturba Library, Sadar, and Kundanlal Gupta Library, Imamwada.
The Board of Directors also decided to upgrade six schools of NMC and they would be renovated and provided computers with internet and other facilities so that students of those schools can excel in studies, felt Gotmare.
Smart City will also install 400 smart bins with sensors in 200 places. The main objective behind this is to cover the black spots as well as to improve the quality of city and make it clean and beautiful. The bins will be installed by removing the defects found in the smart bins that were installed earlier on Smart Street and they would definitely benefit the citizens. The Board of Directors has decided to create a mobile app and provide 49 services in accordance with the Maharashtra Public Service Rights Rules 2015. The decision to set up police booths at various places in Nagpur has been taken by the Board.