Rs 216 crore released for Mangaluru smart city
Smart City mission - Rs 216 crore released
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How to fund climate-smart cities
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Fundamentally, climate-smart transformation needs set of city-specific strategies to systematically reduce city’s carbon footprint and enhance resilience to climate change through smart, affordable and, resilient infrastructure, and mixed form of adaptable land-use. Cities can use ‘predictive models’ to assess the potential risks of climate vulnerabilities (erratic rainfalls, flood, high temperature) and, monetise those risks to account for additional financial and social costs for building safeguards.
On the other hand, each city should have a clearly defined ‘low carbon pathway’, a series of interventions under certain plausible scenarios around integrated solid waste management (ISWM), energy efficient energy/ water supply, harnessing rooftop solar and battery storage, green urban mobility (including electric mobility, public and, non-motorised transport), green and affordable building infrastructure, smart grids, that decouple city’s economic growth from the growth of GHG emissions.
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Dominant control of agriculture and irrigation on urban heat island in India
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UHI can be affected by the radiation budget and land-use configuration of the local and urban-rural environment
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IIT team tracks urban heat island effect in 89 cities
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“There are two reasons why urban areas in western and central parts of India become cooler than non-urban areas during summer. The non-urban areas have no crop and moisture, the soil is dry and day-time air temperature is above 40 degrees C. On the other hand, the urban areas have vegetation cover and water bodies. This is why cities are cooler than the surrounding non-urban areas during the day,” explains Prof. Mishra.
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“Since the government is planning to develop these as smart cities, we should think of using more sustainable building materials that absorb less heat during the day. We also need to include passive cooling measures such as increased tree cover, increased ventilation in buildings and orientation of buildings in modern building designs to reduce the night-time urban heat island effect,” he says. There should be an optimal combination of impervious cover, vegetation cover, and water bodies within the cities.
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If a city or town has a good system of taking weather observations the UHI can be measured directly. An alternative is to use a complex simulation of the location to calculate the UHI, or to use an approximate empirical method. Such models allow the UHI to be included in estimates of future temperatures rises within cities due to climate change.
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I don't know whether proposed '
Central Command Centre' for Smart Mangaluru is planned to address things like climate change or disasters. I also don't know which local college is involved in urban planning for Mangaluru.
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2} which NRSA may be developing as a part of national land use and land cover mapping. I think even Mangalore University or NITK with their Geoinformatics knowledge can come up with a map and develop ‘
predictive model’ (
predictive analytics) for Mangaluru & coastal Karnataka. (when will Mangalore University grow from geoinformatic to
computational earth science &
informatics?).
We have to understand
Urban Heat Islands in the context of Pashchima Vahini (Seaweed cultivation is not an issue as sea evaporation was always there). We also have to plan for coastal defense and natural resilience against climate change.
What we want is a multidimensional animation map of the city predicting 'land going under sea against time' and 'microclimate changes due to new urban constructions'. (the map will go on improving and give more precise predictions as Earth Science Computational Modeling techniques matures in future). Mangaluru should have good predictive analytics and preventive measures capabilities of urban, architectural & microclimate planning. (I think currently Indian urban institutes are working only on computational transportation planning & may be governance analytics). In addition, if the map can also help in rural and agricultural/maricultural planning also then it would be great.
The government should issue permission to construct building (especially skyscrapers) only after studying disaster proneness and the effect of the building on microclimate of the city. Multidimensional animation application/tool should enable this. All our development works along sea or river banks targetting next 100 years should be above 3 meters from current high tide level of sea & backwater with a assumption that sea rises by 2 meters in next 100 years. Like Delhi airport proposed Padubidri airport should not get flooded by river or sea at least for next 100 years. Seaport, marina & other water based transportation infrastructures which are not covered by CRZ rules have to be developed with due care. While developing city as per Transit Oriented Development norms due consideration has to be given to street geometry factors effecting microclimate. Mangaluru should be climate change resilient and should contribute zero to climate change.
Terrace gardens, solar roofs, water bodies, greenspace/trees (with ensured availability of ground water), green buildings are the way to overcome UHI effects. Microclimate of the city should be controlled against
street canyon effect as Mangaluru is growing vertically. The city should be designed so that its highrises have enough space inbetween to allow smooth flow of air through each nook & corner.
What we have now is a NGO monitoring pollution level. We need a study group (could be from Mangalore University or NITK if not a separate institute on urban informatics) for monitoring ground water level, UHI/UCI effects, sea level, street canyon effect etc and model extreme rainfalls (Mangaluru is supposed to get
weather radar,
'Rapidly growing Indian cities may face extreme rainfalls') if Central Command Centre does not do all these things. {
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Microclimate Modelling - For Greenfield - Modelling should help in designing entire greenfield area and its interactions with boundary areas. For Redevelopment/Retrofitting - It should issue individual licenses to a building after studying its effect on local microclimate.
The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island
Since we are going to develop a narrow belt from Mangaluru to Udupi and people will be dispersed across vast area between these two cities with enough greenspace separating TOD centres (Transit Oriented Development) and we have enough water bodies like rivers in between the UHI effect would be small.
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New bus stand project to figure at smart city meeting
MCC approves bus terminal of DBFOT model at Pumpwell
Pumpwell bus terminal project takes a leap
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MANGALURU, November 29, 2017 01:08 IST
Updated: November 29, 2017 01:08 IST
Kavita Sanil, Mayor, and Mohammed Nazir, Commissioner, Mangaluru City Corporation, at the council meeting on Tuesday.
Corporation agrees to take it up under DBFOT model
More than three years after the council of Mangaluru City Corporation approved the taking up of a bus terminal project at Pumpwell, the proposal has taken a leap with the council on Tuesday agreeing to take it up under a Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer (DBFOT) model.
The council approved the DBFOT model submitted by the Chettinad Builders Pvt. Ltd. According to it, the project can be taken up on 7.23 acres now with the corporation.
Mohammed Nazir, Commissioner of the corporation, told the council that according to the model submitted by the private company, 198 buses could be parked on two floors in the terminal. In addition, the terminal would have a multi-level car parking facility, two-wheeler parking facility, a mall, a theatre and shops in the commercial complex. He said that the bidder who would take up the project would have to hand over it to the corporation after 33 years of completion.
The Commissioner said once the government approved the proposal an expression of interest would be called to take up the project that might cost RS. 400 crore.
As Mayor Kavita Sanil gave approval for the DBFOT model on November 9, expecting that the council would not oppose it, a proposal has been placed before the special purpose vehicle (which is a company) for approving projects for Mangaluru under the smart city mission, to allow for taking up the terminal project under the same, he said. The Commissioner said that the Board of the SPV would meet on Wednesday.
The council also agreed to take up a modern market-cum-commercial complex project at Kankanady at an estimated cost of Rs. 49.50 crore. The Mayor gave in advance approval for this on November 23.
According to this proposal, Rs. 22.50 crore (45% of the project cost) would be raised as loan from the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC), Rs. 17 crore (35%) would be taken as loan from any nationalised bank and the balance Rs. 10 crore (20%) would be borne by the corporation.
The council agreed to send a proposal to the SPV for smart city mission for approving the project under the mission.
Referring to sending the proposals to the SPV, the Commissioner said that it made the formalities pertaining to the government approvals faster. In addition, as the SPV had a project management consultancy quality of the project could be maintained.
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Smart City SPV clears proposal for transport hub for Namma Kudla
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MANGALURU: The board of Mangalore Smart City Ltd, the SPV for Mangaluru smart city project on Wednesday cleared a proposal sent by Mangaluru City Corporation to construct the transport hub for the city near Mahavir (Pumpwell) Circle. The council of MCC on Tuesday had approved an agenda under which the transport hub will be taken up on PPP mode under the design, build, finance operate and transfer (DBFOT) mode at an estimated cost of Rs 400 crore.
The agenda was approved at the meeting that P Hemalatha, DK district in-charge secretary and chairperson of the SPV chaired. The civic body has already acquired 7.23 acres of land at 37 Maroli ward for this purpose and the main intention in routing transport hub project through the SPV is to expedite the entire process related to tendering and execution, said Shashidhar Hegde, chief whip of the ruling Congress in MCC and also a member of the board of the company.
Mohammad Nazeer, commissioner, MCC and MD of the company told TOI that the transport hub will have provision for 198 bus bays in addition to parking for two and four-wheelers. All inter, intra city bus operations will be shifted to the hub once it is operational and this will vastly decongest existing terminus near the SBI main branch for city and at the hockey ground that has been converted in to terminus for mofussil, service and inter-district bus operations.
The pre-bid meeting will see final fine tuning of the proposal which could accommodate interests of the investor while ensuring that MCC does benefit from leasing out the land to the successful bidder. The project will require the bidder to develop the road from Mahavir junction to the hub and also provide for an underpass in addition to constructing the terminal with provision for commercial complex and multi-level car parking facilities, Mayor Kavitha Sanil said.
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Smart City SPV meeting approves bus terminal at Pumpwell
Is the design of Pumpwell bus terminal flexible enough to incorporate metro in future to make it multi-mode transportation hub? Is there any plan to shift State Bank city bus stop to Bunder to make Bunder also a multi-mode transportation hub of water, road & rail? If not all buses some city buses can be made to go upto Bunder by widening State Bank to Bunder road. Otherwise KSRTC can run amphibious buses from places like Ullal, Airport to State Bank via Bunder.
However I am not sure whether Mangalore need one more mall/theatre at pumpwell as closeby there will be Plama Mall. Side effect will be additional vehicle traffic as theatre is not exclusively for mass transportation system users. Why not plan for something for which bus commuters from rural places visit the core city? Need some operational research to understand commuters' needs.
Skywalk project still suffering birth pangs
Is now skywalk project part of Smart City project?
'Work on laying UG cable complete in M'luru'
Whether this is part of Smart City project? Did they complete this without digging roads or footpaths?
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Here are a few smart developments across the district
Govt floats tender to provide free WiFi across the state including Mangaluru
Karnataka launches project to instal WiFi facilities in gram panchayats
MLA to make Puttur, Vitla ‘smart’ with free Wi-Fi
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66 projects approved under smart city: MCC Commissioner
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Control Command Centre (CCC) in city
Nazir said that a Control Command Centre (CCC) will be set up in Mangaluru under the smart city programme. The CCC is focused on the monitoring of smart solutions. The CCTV footage, Wi-Fi enabled smart poles and air quality surveillance systems will be monitored through the CCC. The centre will be set up in the MCC building.
Also, with the installation of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA), water distribution networking system will be monitored to check the volume of water from source to bulk storage at various levels. This will help to measure the exact quantity of revenue, non-revenue and wastage water, Nazir said.
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Mangaluru to get 22 smart bus stop shelters under Smart Cities project
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While bus shelter A will have e-toilets including interactive display and real time indicator, bus shelter B will have same features as shelter A minus e-toilet, and bus shelter C will be a smaller sized version of bus shelter B type, said Mohammad Nazeer, MD, Mangaluru Smart City Ltd.
Nazeer, also commissioner, Mangaluru City Corporation told reporters that the bus stop shelters will be constructed at cost of Rs 4.8 crore and tenders for the same opened on January 29, 2018. While bus shelter types A and B will measure 7.5 metres long and 2.2 metres wide, bus shelter type C will be 6 metres long and 2.2 metres wide. While bus shelters in core central business district areas fall under types A and B, those on the periphery will be in type C.
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An artist’s impression of the bus shelter proposed at 22 locations in Mangaluru under the Smart City Mission
If that yellow floor of extra height is removed then busstop will look more safe and comfortable to walk. I also think the horizontal barrier on left side, may be there to provide strength, is disallowing free movement of commuters and pedestrians. Ghanashyam, whenever our party takes over MCC rule we have to remove all such unsafe & inconvenient features from all busstops and even create space for autobays & bicycles at the back of busstops to make them true multi-mode busstops.
Mangaluru all set to get its iconic clock tower back in modern avatar
Have a look at old and proposed new clock tower -
Clock Tower will be rebuilt
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Mangaluru to get its first model bus bay
Having park near bus stop is a good thing to have. But how many types of model bus stops Mangaluru is going to have? Whether anybody has listed down the facilities that should be available in a model bus stop/bay? What are compulsory facilities and what are optional facilities? For me toilet is compulsory and I also consider multi-mode features should be compulsory. Then safety, comfort all those things should be part of bus stop design. Better request some architecture school to list down all these and accept the report prepared by them as guideline for designing bus bays/stops. And even for amphibian bus bays/stops at 'floating cities'!
Alright, it is also time to come up with a plan for 'Smart Seaerotropolis Kudla' with floating townships -
10,000 seaplanes, 'floating cities' in the form of ocean cruises and electric vehicles zipping on dedicated highway lanes -- that's the future as envisioned by Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari. We have already talked about floating farms, floating biogas refineries, floating power plants, floating restaurants etc. That itself should lead to floating cities. Actually India, as its population is increasing drastically and land is getting lost to sea due to climate change, should had floating city programme much earlier than space programme. This is why India need more branches of
NIOT to study various design issues connected with floating cities. First step for 'Mangaluru-Udupi Seaerotropolis' may be to have a floating NIOT itself! I will try to detail about Seaerotropolis (Sea+Aero+Metropolis, Seatropolis+Aerotropolis) sometime later.
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Proposal finalized for smart road
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The proposal of comprehensive development of Nehru Maidan smart road includes streetscape designing, beautification, landscaping, intersection redesigning and infrastructure upgrading under Smart City Mission on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode. Widening of the road, providing stainless steel bus shelter with LED displays, installation of outdoor wi-fi, e-toilets with LED, GPS connectivity, providing traffic signal poles, laying tiles, interlocks, dust bins, 180-watt LED street lights, grass lawns, planting shrubs and fixing irrigation lines and sprinklers for lawn areas. The existing structure at the A B Shetty Circle will be preserved while developing the model smart road.
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Whether e-toilets will be occupying footpath like already constructed ones?
Smart bus shelters in 22 places
So, the toilet on one side of busstop on footpath. They have listened my earlier question! Pedestrians are forced to walk on busbay itself. What a smart design! Are they going to waste all Rs. 2,000 crores like this to create inconvenience to pedestrians?
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Britain offers assistance in Smart City project
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Dominic McAllister (British deputy high commissioner) informed that Mangaluru City Corporation is preparing the Smart City project report with assistance from British city designers and universities, during the discussion held with officials and members of the Commerce and Industries.
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So, British universities are involved hence no Mangalore Institutes! British had helped us for 300 years and still helping us. So much broad-minded!
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MCC approves Rs 33.25 cr under AMRUT scheme
Corpn. okays AMRUT, ADB-funded projects
Corporation special meeting clears projects worth Rs 192cr
Why AMRUT grant is not made a part of Smartcity project?