Belagavi has found a place in the list of top 75 cities that have qualified the Stage 1 of the India Smart Cities Awards Contest-2022. Belagavi has qualified and has been ranked 35 on the list.
The list has been released by the ministry of housing and urban affairs and those cities have been included in the list which have performed well in the last one year under the Smart City Mission.
Tumakuru, Shivamogga and Hubballi Dharwad have also found a place in the list and have been ranked at number 10, 20 and 28, respectively.
Davanagere, Bengaluru and Mangaluru have also found a place in the list and have been ranked at number 37, 48 and 49, respectively.
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Under the stage-2 of the contest, the authorities have now been directed to submit award proposals under different categories, including project awards, state/UT awards, innovation, city awards and leadership awards
It has been further stated that the ministry has also included new awards for partners working with the departments, including project management consultants, industry partners, community-based organisations, etc.
India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) was launched to reward the cities, projects and innovative ideas promoting ‘smart; development in cities. All the Smart Cities’ SPVs are eligible to submit their nominations for the ISAC. The second edition of the awards, i.e. ISAC 2019 was announced on 31 January 2019, through a video conference.
Smart Cities. ISAC 2019 was a two-stage submission process: first stage or ‘Qualifying Stage’ involves overall assessment of the city’s performance and second stage or ‘Proposal Stage’ requires smart cities to submit their nominations for two categories viz. Project Award and Innovative Idea Award.
Winners of India Smart Cities Awards Contest 2019 under various categories are given in Annexure III. The third edition of awards, ISAC 2020 was announced on 25 August 2020. All 100 smart cities participated in this edition of ISAC. In this edition, a special award ‘COVID Innovation Award’ was introduced to recognize the cities on the work done in prevention of COVID-19. The jury is currently evaluating the proposals and the results will be declared in the last week of January 2021.
