Maharashtra government chooses L&T to develop Nagpur as smart city

Mumbai, Aug 16 (KNN) Larsen & Toubro has received a letter of intent from the Maharashtra Government to convert the Nagpur, the Orange City into the country’s first large-scale integrated Smart City. This is in line with the government’s vision to use vanguard technology for creating smart solutions to improve quality of life of citizens.

Letter of Intent was handed over by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, to representatives of the company at a function in Mumbai today.

As per the official release, the scope of work in Phase 1 for L&T’s smart world communications business vertical, which is a  part  of  L&T  Construction,  will  cover  laying  of  1200  km  of  optical  fiber  network  backbone, creating 136 City Wi-Fi hotspots at key locations, establishing 100 digital interactive kiosks and developing  city  surveillance  systems  with  3800  IP  based  cameras. 

Further,  as  an  avant-garde endeavour, the city has identified a strip of approximately 6 km (from Japanese Garden Square to Orange City Hospital Square) to be developed as a ‘Smart Strip’ with state-of-the-art systems powered by smart  ICT  interventions  like  smart  transport,  solid  waste  management, smart lighting, etc. which can be leveraged in a phased manner to ultimately cover the entire city.

“After Jaipur, this is the most significant step in the country’s journey towards establishing smart cities and we are delighted to be participating in transforming Nagpur into one,” said. S.N.Subrahmanyan, Deputy Managing Director & President, Larsen & Toubro.

“As a Master Systems  Integrator,  we  will  provide  leading  edge  technology  solutions  including  high  end analytics, mobile surveillance and high-tech tools like drones,” he elaborated.

“The Nagpur Smart City project is a major milestone for the Government of Maharashtra,” said  Vijay  Kumar  Gautam,  Principal  Secretary,  Government  of  Maharashtra,  describing  the  initiative that will be driven by the government’s Department of Information & Technology. “We envisage it as a very structured programme replete with several digital technology elements,” he said, adding that the ‘Smart Strip’ will be a new and exciting concept attempted for the first time in the country. (KNN Bureau)