India Smart Cities Award Contest-2022

August 28, 2023

Ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) recently announced the India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC) under the Smart Cities Mission (SCM), that felicitated 66 winners in various categories.
The ISAC 2022 award had a two-stage submission process consisting of ‘Qualifying Stage’, which involved overall assessment of the city’s performance, and the ‘Proposal Stage’ which required the smart cities to submit their nominations for six award categories.
A total of 845 nominations were received for ISAC 2022 from 80 qualifying smart cities.
Winners included-
- Indore won the national smart city award,
- Madhya Pradesh received the state award and Chandigarh received the UT award.
- Coimbatore – built environment,
- Ahmedabad for the culture and Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) category,
- Jabalpur for economy,
- Chandigarh for governance and mobility,
- Indore for sanitation, water and urban environment,
- Vadodara for social aspects,
- Hubbali Dharwad for the innovative idea category and
- Surat for Covid innovation category.