Smartnet Niua

Smartnet is an initiative of the Ministry of Urban Development to support the development of cities across India and to create a resource-rich ecosystem of learning, sharing and disseminating for city managers and primary stakeholders in the urban transformation of India. The key objectives of Smartnet are: Providing a horizontal learning and knowledge sharing platform for exchange between cities, practitioners, academia, researchers and technologists; Evolving a comprehensive framework to visualise and articulate the government's urban sector missions such as smart cities, AMRUT, Housing for All, HRIDAY and Swacch Bharat. Smartnet encourages Government to Government (G-to-G) and Government to Business (G-to-B) and Business to Government (B-to-G) linkages for the urban sector in India enabling transparent and structured interactions between cities, businesses and institutions. Smartnet provides cities an opportunity to share details of training programmes, conferences and tender documents like EOIs, RFPs, and so on. For the private sector, it provides a platform for the industries to showcase their ideas and innovations developed for cities. Individual cities can share success stories along with information on the proponents and leadership of the successes which will be highlighted regularly. In addition to various success stories, technological updates and innovative measures adopted by cities, Smartnet will also give users a glimpse into “Trending Topics” in the urban sector. The portal will provide users real time information through City Dashboards, capturing changes at City level, project level information through geo-tagging of projects and latest updates on the progress of the urban sector missions. Reports on financial and physical progress of projects under the Smart City Mission will be generated periodically on Smartnet.