Jaipur has been selected in the list of 100 Smart cities under the Smart City Mission of Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Government of India launched in June 2015. Moving forward the city is in the process of preparing a Smart City Proposal (SCP) as a requirement to participate in the Smart City Challenge, which needs to be submitted within 100 days timeframe. Under the Smart City Challenge, top 20 cities will be selected from 100 shortlisted cities based on the SCP. The smart city proposal would include city wide smart urban solutions as well as identification of areas within the city for specific area development and its implementation. Upon shortlisting, Jaipur can claim to work towards becoming one of India's connected cities under the smart city initiative. The dream of Rajasthan Govt is to transition Jaipur into a smart and sustainable city in phases.

The process of SCP preparation would be driven by intense citizen engagement at multiple levels in the city, for which Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) has prepared an extensive Citizen Engagement Plan. The idea is to capture the voice and unique vision of the citizen for their city and engage with them proactively to understand city priority issues and the prioritise solutions based on their needs. JMC will carry out three rounds of stakeholder consultations over the period of next two months.
In the round 1 Citizen’s views and suggestions would be documented and incorporated to arrive at City’s Vision and define goals in terms of their aspiration to see their city in next 20 years followed by strategies to achieve these goals. The stakeholders are expected to highlight suggestions/ideas on improvement of city services such as water supply, transportation system, sanitation, housing, health, education, energy, open spaces, air quality, safety and security etc. In the next stage i.e. Round 2 of stakeholder consultations, which will be carried out during the month of October, JMC will seek similar kind of feedback from citizens on area development and pan city smart solutions.

Jaipur citizen and community is its biggest strength. Your views and feedback is very critical and important in this process. So at this stage, the citizens are urged to participate in the forum and share their views on Vision for Jaipiur City, Goals and Strategies to achieve this. Your views, opinion and solutions on urban issues faced by Jaipur would not only support a better future, but it will also make Jaipur strong contender for getting shortlisted as one of the first 20 cities in India to implement Smart City Solutions in Phase 1.

Let’s participate to make this proposal inclusive and meaningful for every common man, every citizen of the city.

Kindly post your views and ideas till 15th October 2015.