Alok Verma

New Delhi, Sept. 6: A Smart Cities Mission event was held at Pune on August 30 in partnership with Invest India and the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.

The Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd. was the host of the event whose aim was to bring forward the best technologies in several areas, including traffic, transport and mobility management.

The solutions in the focus sectors will help solve some of the pressing issues faced by Indian smart cities today. The showcase was a first step towards bringing the innovation ecosystem and smart cities closer to contributing towards the development of smart cities.

The start-ups and national science and technology research labs presented their solutions to smart city CEOs during small round table discussions wherein each CEO along with knowledge partners interacted with start-ups and research labs to benefit from each other’s experiences and identify possible synergies.

Twelve smart city CEOs from Maharashtra and Gujarat along with various knowledge partners and R&D labs were present at the event. A total of nine start-ups got an excellent opportunity to present their technologies, interact and network with the various stakeholders present there.

Smart city CEOs expressed intent to work with the start-ups and further materialize pathways to deploy these solutions in their respective smart cities. To take the initiative forward, Invest India along with Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs will organize similar technology showcases in other zones of India as well.

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