An essay competition on the theme “My Panaji, Smart Panaji” saw an overwhelming response of 1522 submissions.

As per the Smart City Mission Guidelines citizens engagement is mandatory activity at all level with respect to preparation of smart city challenge stage 2 proposal.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has encouraged piloting and scaling up of innovations and good practices to improve health outcomes. It is an essential part of National Health Mission and the states are supported to pilot & field test innovations.

According to Census 2011, there are 2.68 crore persons with disabilities in India, who constitute 2.21% of the total population.However, estimates vary across sources and in reality this figure could be much higher.

Bhopal Municipal Corporation has always adopted the path of innovation, in order to achieve the goal of offering good quality public life to the citizens of Bhopal, with available limited resources.

Bilaspur Municipal corporation began doing citizen consultation in a bid to engage more and more citizens in the smart city campaign.

Shri. Bakshi Ram Arora, Mayor Amritsar gave a message to all the residents of Amritsar as a part of awareness campaign about the Smart City Amritsar.

As a part of smart city challenge stage 2 for inclusion of Amritsar in the first 20 cities. A brain storming Live Talk Show was conducted by Municipal Corporation Amritsar in collaboration with Guru Ram Das School of Planning and Architecture in Guru Nanak University Campus.

A brain storming Live Talk Show was conducted by Municipal Corporation at Global Institutes Campus. A team of consultants from Jones Lang LaSalle (J.L.L) and Tata Consulting Engineers presented their Smart City Presentation to the learned faculty and distinguish young planners and architects of the Institute.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development had organized a Badge Design competition for Gender Champions through the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao page on MyGov portal.