Urban Housing and Development Department is working with full dedication to speed up important works like providing basic facilities to the citizens, keeping the cities clean, preserving the Environment. Along with making new rules and projects for the development of cities, their implementation is also being done in a time-limit. Urban Development and Housing Minister Bhupendra Singh himself reviews the plans every week.
As a result, Madhya Pradesh has done remarkable work in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project “Smart City”. The project has completed 6 years. Not only Bhopal and Indore of the State, work is going on as per the target in other cities where smart city project has been approved. As a result of this, in the India Smart Awards Contest-2020 announced by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, overall Indore got the first place, 5 Smart Cities of the state got 11 awards and Madhya Pradesh got second place in the states category.Project Award.
Indore bagged first position for 56 shop project. Sanitation Theme – Indore got first position in Municipal Waste Management System theme along with Tirupati city.
Culture Theme – Indore got first place for Conservation of Built Heritage and Gwalior got third place for Digital Museum. economy theme – Indore got the first position for financing mechanism. Urban environment Theme – Bhopal got the first position for Clean Energy along with Chennai.