Harshavardhan Chitale, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Philips Lighting India Ltd, has lauded Urban Local Bodies for focusing on smart and modern lighting systems in their Smart City plans.

With projects off the ground, the recently held summit focused on transportation, PPP, planning future cities, water and wastewater, IoT and energy.

Together with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, TERI developed GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment), which was endorsed as the ‘National rating system for green buildings in India’ in the year 2007.

Richa Industries Limited, a construction and engineering company, has secured an order worth Rs 35 crore from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for constructing six elevated Metro stations on the Mukundpur-Shiv Vihar Corridor and a depot-cum-workshop of the Jahangirpuri-Badli Corridor Phase III of Delhi MRTS.

China Zun Tower, part of the rejuvenation of Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD), is a symbol of the country’s national identity. The skyscraper will be home to CITIC Group and CITIC Bank headquarters and attract international financial institutions and top 500 enterprises of China to Beijing.

Real-estate developers have welcomed the implementation of Goods and Service Tax. According to them, GST will greatly improve a fractured tax system and help create an integrated Indian market. The government has always made it clear that leasing of land, renting of buildings as well as EMIs paid for purchase of under-construction houses will start attracting GST.

Real estate developers have welcomed the implementation of the Goods and Services (GST) Tax. According to them, GST will greatly improve a fractured tax system and help create an integrated Indian market.

Bentley Systems Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, has announced its call for submissions to the 2017 ‘Be Inspired’ Awards programme.

The concept of Smart Cities has been rapidly rising, mainly due to the Internet, in the last two decades. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been widely used in government, businesses, and private societies, etc.