Smart City Bhopal

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Smart City Bhopal is an initiative by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation to transform the city into a smart, connected and eco-friendly place, with a focus on education, research, entrepreneurship and tourism. It is part of India's Smart Cities Mission, which aims to develop 100 smart cities; Bhopal is among the 98 cities identified for development under the program. The project was announced in 2015 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the scheme, with about ₹700 crore (US$83 million) allocated for Bhopal by the Madhya Pradesh government. Area-based development is underway on a 354-acre site at North TT Nagar. A total of 450 kilometres of fiber optic cables for intelligent street lighting is planned, costing around ₹500 crore. The plan runs as a public–private partnership and is expected to earn the BMC about ₹900 crore in the next decade. HP’s Universal Internet of Things platform will power India’s first cloud-based Integrated Command and Control Centre to monitor and manage city utilities and citizen services. B-Nest, a smart city incubation centre, supports startups, and a tie-up with Esri gives startups free access to Esri’s cloud mapping tools.