Surat smart city has been selected for ‘City Award’ for showing great momentum in the implementation of projects under ‘India Smart Cities Award’ 2018.
Overall, nine awards have been announced under the India Smart Cities Awards. The awards are divided into three categories:
1. City Award
The city award will be conferred to Surat for showing great momentum in the implementation of projects especially in the categories of urban environment, transport and mobility and sustainable integrated development.
2. Innovative Idea Award
The Innovative idea award is conferred to a project or an idea that is particularly remarkable for its innovative, bottom-up and transformative approach towards the achievement of sustainable integrated development.
The joint winners in the category include Bhopal for its Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) and Ahmedabad for its Safe and Secure Ahmedabad (SASA) Project.
3. Project Award
The award is given to most innovative and successful projects in seven categories that have been completed by April 1, 2018.
The selected projects include:
| S.no. | Category | Project Name |
| 1 | Governance | PMC Care from Pune |
| 2 | Built Environment | Smart Place Making from Pune |
| 3 | Social Aspects | Smart Class rooms from NDMC and Jabalpur, Smart Campus from Visakhapatnam, Lighthouse from Pune |
| 4 | Culture and Economy | B Nest Incubation Centre from Bhopal, Conservation of Rajasthan School of Arts from Jaipur |
| 5 | Urban Environment | Public Bike Sharing from Bhopal, Pune, Coimbatore and Waste to Energy Plant in Jabalpur |
| 6 | Transport and Mobility | Integrated Transit Management System (TMS) from Ahmedabad and Surat |
| 7 | Water and Sanitation | Smart Water Management through SCADA from Ahmedabad |
About India Smart Cities Award
• The awards were launched on June 25, 2017 with an aim to reward cities, projects and innovative ideas, promoting sustainable development in cities.
• Only smart cities are eligible for the awards.
• The results were declared after a technical committee comprising international/multilateral experts from UN Habitat, Asian Development Bank and NIUA evaluated the submissions based on innovation, impact, replicability and scalability.
• The city award was decided on the basis of the cities' performance on their awards score and on weekly ranking score as on May 2, 2018, which was the award application submission deadline.
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