A FICCI-KPMG smart city knowledge report on ‘Cybersecurity in Smart Cities’, has suggested a five-point action plan to enable smart cities to keep pace with the cybersecurity needs
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PPP Framework For Greenfield Smart City
In India, the Central and the State Governments have worked on a wide range of sectorsùincluding roads, ports, telecommunication, power, water supply, waste management, tourism, industrial infrastructure, SEZ, township development, and health on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) basis.
Center to push urban growth corridors
To effectively address the emerging urbanisation challenges, the Ministry of Urban Development has come out with a multi-pronged policy framework to promote living close to mass urban transit corridors.
Viability Gap Funding to support infrastructure projects worth Rs 2,750 crore
Viability Gap Funding, which has been provided a budgetary support of Rs 550 crore, will support projects worth Rs 2,750 crore towards infrastructure building in 2017-18. VGF was Rs 1,000 for the current fiscal.
Closed Mines | Eco Challenges
Mining is a temporary activity which involves intermediate use of land. Typically, the operating life of a mine lasts from a few years to several decades, depending upon the natural environment such as weather, soil and quality, excavation of resources mined through the mining, use and availability of land.
India´s Achilles heel is lack of spectrum
It is not unusual among developing countries, to find that Internet usage lags behind mobile take-up. India suffers in the sense that, as a huge country with significant usage of local languages, it relies primarily on terrestrial networks for delivery of service, which tend to be more expensive to provide than submarine networks.
We don´t have a benchmark. The government will have to start setting it
It seems the government has a few mega projects in hand. These really need to stand the test of time, and how the rollout is going to happen is going to be the single biggest challenge. The numbers are too big. They should get real in terms of achieving these numbers.
Tribunal to be set up for faster resolution of PPP disputes
The government is planning to set up an independent tribunal for faster resolution of disputes relating to private sector partnerships and public procurement.
Regulatory framework for Mining, construction?
The government may soon come out with a separate transparent regulatory framework for construction, mining and earthmoving equipment sectors, according to media reports.
OSi uses bentley map to create an authoritative SDI
Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi), Ireland´s national mapping agency, has developed a standardised, authoritative digital referencing framework that enables consistent referencing and integration of national data related to location.