{"id":257472,"date":"2023-08-26T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257472"},"modified":"2023-08-26T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:56:29","slug":"indore-best-city-m-p-top-state-in-smart-cities-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indore-best-city-m-p-top-state-in-smart-cities-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Indore best city, M.P. top State in Smart Cities contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cIndore best city, M.P. top State in Smart Cities contest\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 26th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The President of India will present the I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ndia Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC), 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the India<\/b><b> Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC) is organized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To recognize and reward cities, projects and innovative ideas that are promoting sustainable development across the 100 smart cities as well as stimulating inclusive, equitable, safe, healthy and collaborative cities leading to a better quality of life for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The ISAC award had a two-stage submission process<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> consisting of \u2018Qualifying Stage\u2019, which involved overall assessment of the city\u2019s performance, and the \u2018Proposal Stage\u2019 which required the smart cities to submit their nominations for six award categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>This is the fourth edition of the ISAC awards <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the previous ones held in 2018, 2019, and 2020.There were no awards in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key takeaways from ISAC 2022?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indore has been named as the best Smart\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City. Surat\u00a0and Agra are the second and third place winners among cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madhya Pradesh has been chosen as the top\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">state. Tamil\u00a0Nadu is the second in State category followed by Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The award for the best Union Territory has gone to Chandigarh.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndore best city, M.P. top State in Smart Cities contest\u201d \u00a0published in The Hindu on 26th August 2023. What is the News? The President of India will present the India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC), 2022. What is the India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC)? India Smart&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indore-best-city-m-p-top-state-in-smart-cities-contest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indore best city, M.P. top State in Smart Cities contest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,1305,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-257472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}