Bhubaneswar: Rourkela is one of the 10 Indian cities that won the ‘Nurting Environmental Challenge’ under the Aegis Mission of Smart City from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (Mohua).
Other winning cities include Bengaluru, Hubballi-Dharwad, Indore, Jabalpur, Kakinada, Kochi, Kohima, Vadodara, and Warangal.
The finalists were chosen after a comprehensive evaluation of the projects proposed and implemented.
Rourkela Smart City Limited (RSCL) and Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) together responded to Mohua’s open calls for proposals to implement environmental level pilot projects that enhance public space, roads, transportation, and access to services to improve health and well-being 0 children -5 years and their caregivers.
Rourkela was elected by the Expert Committee of 63 cities applicants throughout the country in February last year.
Then it was part of the 25 cities cohort that received technical assistance and capacity building to request citizen participation, apply trials and pilots, and build consensus around their proposal.
“Under this program, future plans are made to provide children with various components, a better environment, and to build a better relationship between senior citizens and children in urban slums,” said Nikhil Pavan Kalyan, Sundargarh Collector.
Recognizing HandiWadis as one of the most important ECD development services (ECD) services, this city increases two argumanwadi centers with a playroom, a nursing cum counseling station for pregnant women and kitchen parks.
RSCL and RMC jointly take steps to make learning-based learning areas for underprivileged children and society in Malgodam and leprosy colonies, towards strengthening healthy development in childhood childhood.
The host initiative has been carried out by RMC to make Rourkela a child-friendly city.
Subhankar Mohapatra, Commissioner, RMC said this challenge helped them to visualize and see how much they could do for the baby, toddler and caregivers community in the steel city.
In addition, nursing cabins (nursing pods) are installed in the ILMBAIGAR TUPHC in Bondamunda, the market room of the Basanti colony and RMC office to support young mothers who work from all parts of the community to breastfeed easily.
Rourkela also looks forward to increasing early childhood-oriented improvement in health facilities, digital learning and education, and the inclusion of nature in each project, the official source said.
This program was carried out in collaboration with the Bernard Van Leer Foundation with WRI India as a technical partner.
Rourkela Smart City will receive technical assistance for the next two years, with initiative.
Rourkela between 10 smart cities under the environmental nurturing challenge
