Our urban initiatives set a benchmark for projects across India

29 Nov 2024 CW Team

The Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation (NSSCDCL) has bagged an excellence award for being a leader in creating healthy streets in Indian cities. Soumya Sharma Chandak, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), tells R SRINIVASAN what led to this achievement and elaborates upon other successes and plans. Excerpts from the conversation:

What key factors contributed to NSSCDCL winning the excellence award for creating healthy streets in India?
We won this award for our efforts to suggest junction improvement and road design. In cities, while roads are developed, junctions are sometimes overlooked. And it is here that most issues happen as people tend to try to cross over from junctions or they become a point for illegal parking and hawking. So, from a pedestrian approach, we offered a design in which many technical experts were involved and local requirements were taken into consideration. This design, tuned with actual ground realities and more or less in sync with pedestrian requirements, is in the process of implementation by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC)...

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