SAAR to prepare a compendium of 75 landmark urban projects
Fifteen premier architecture and planning institutes will be working with Smart Cities to document landmark projects undertaken by the Smart Cities Mission under a programme announced on 5 Jan 2022.
The “Smart cities and Academia Towards Action & Research (SAAR)” programme, by the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) as well as the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and leading Indian academic institutions of the country, MoHUA said on 5 Jan 2022.
The documents will capture the learnings from best practices, provide opportunities for engagement on urban development projects to students, and enable real-time information flow between urban practitioners and academia.
The Smart Cities Mission’s urban projects are lighthouse projects to other aspiring cities. Since the start of the Mission in 2015, the 100 Smart Cities have been developing a total of 5,151 projects with an investment of Rs.205,018 crore.
The first activity envisaged under SAAR is to prepare a compendium of 75 landmark urban projects in India under the Smart City Mission. These 75 urban projects are innovative, multi-sectoral, and have been implemented across geographies. The program marks the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, with the idea to showcase country’s best practices and on-ground achievements.
The compendium will act as a first point of reference for future research in the field, help disseminate learnings from projects under the Mission, act as a repository for Urban Projects, and contribute to dissemination of best practices and peer-to-peer learning.
The 75 projects covered in the compendium are distributed across 47 Smart Cities. The partner institutes documenting the projects include inter alia Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Center for Environment Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi, and School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal.
SAAR Process Flow:
MoHUA and NIUA will facilitate linkages between the Institutions and Smart Cities for specific landmark projects that are to be documented under the program. The Institutes will document the outcomes of these projects, on how they are impacting the lives of urban citizens. Team of students, mentors from these premier institutions will be visiting these 47 smart cities to understand/document these projects in the month of January and February 2022.
The workflow of the compendium being prepared by SAAR will include field Investigation, data analysis & documentation, national research methodology workshop for the participating students, peer review of first draft, final submission by research students to their respective institutions, institutional submission of research to NIUA, and leading to the launch of compendium of 75 urban projects by June 2022.
List of Cities and Institutes:
The SAAR project includes 75 urban projects distributed across 47 Smart cities. The cities include: Agra, Ajmer, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Dharamshala, Faridabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Saharanpur, Shimla, Srinagar, Belgavi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Erode, Kakinada, Kochi, Manguluru, Shivamogga, Thanjavur, Thiruchirapalli, Thiruvananthapuram, Tumakuru, Ahmedabad, Dahod, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Surat, Thane, Vadodara, Bhubaneswar, New Town Kolkata, Ranchi, Vishakhapatnam, Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Raipur, Sagar, Ujjain, Jabalpur, Agartala, Gangtok, and Namchi.
The 15 premier institutes of the country, partner in in this event include:
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Malaviya National Institute of Technology
Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
R V College of Architecture, Bangalore
Anna University
College of Engineering, Trivandrum
Department of Architecture & Planning, Manipal University
Center for Environment Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad
College of Engineering, Pune
Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture, Mumbai
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Science and Environment Technology, Shibpur
School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology. fiinews.com
