Smart City awards: Surat tops record of cities utilizing knowledge for delivering governance

Surat has emerged on the high amongst Indian cities to have efficiently applied governance via institutionalised use of information — particularly via massive knowledge crunching — in line with an official evaluation launched Friday.
As many as 42 in an inventory of 100 “smart cities” have been licensed as having put in place techniques to make use of data-based proof for governance supply, below the second spherical of the ‘Data Maturity Assessment Framework’ by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Following Gujarat’s Surat, are Pimpri Chinchwad in Maharashtra and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. Pune has bagged the fourth spot.
“Surat is the best performing city… owing to their efforts of deploying a dedicated team of data experts and incorporating various technological advancements, such as establishment of SuratiLab, an advanced innovation lab for uncovering modern solutions for improved service delivery,” stated the report.
According to the report, the western area is one of the best performing. Its regional common rating of 45 is far larger than the nationwide common of 32. There are 26 cities within the western area, of which 10 cities have been licensed.
In the second spherical of the evaluation, for 2019-20, it was discovered that 100 metropolis knowledge officers (CDOs) have been appointed with 13 everlasting nominations for main and performing data-led actions.
A complete of 61 cities have appointed personnel to assist coordinate knowledge actions for his or her respective departments, as per steerage of CDO. Twenty cities have carried out their very own capacity-building classes on knowledge associated areas along with the ministry-organised trainings.

As many as 69 cities have deployed sensors for knowledge assortment and 63 city areas have printed over 30 datasets on the Smart Cities Open Data Portal.
The gamut of information assortment and evaluation contains sensors, portals, particular algorithms, massive knowledge centres, amongst others. Fifty cities have showcased higher citizen engagement via alerts and notifications.

On Friday, Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Puri, introduced awards in numerous catagories to cities and states to have a good time sixth anniversary of the launch of PMAY-U, AMRUT and Smart Cities Mission.
The Centre additionally unveiled the ‘Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework’ (CSCAF) 2 awards, which had been launched in September, 2020 to evaluate what “climate actions” are being taken by sensible cities. The framework consists of 28 indicators of 96 knowledge factors. The high 9 cities which were awarded with four-star scores are Surat, Indore, Ahmedabad, Pune, Vijayawada, Rajkot, Visakhapatnam, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Vadodara.