Essel group to develop smart cities in Bengal.

After Madhya Pradesh, Essel group plans to develop smart cities in West Bengal in collaboration with the state and central government. The project will be developed under under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.

'Our company has given the proposal to West Bengal government to create smart cities from the existing cities,' said Subhash Chandra, chairman, Essel group recently. The state government plans to develop Rajarhat and New Town as smart cities in future.

Refusing to share any details, Chandra said, 'The chief secretary has come out with a plan but details cannot be disclosed,' he said. He said that the group was interested to work in collaboration with the municipal corporations and aid them in electricity, water and power distribution through the use of smart technology.

The Essel group under its arm EsselI infrastructure Projects Limited has committed investments of Rs. 7,500 crore to develop five such projects in Madhya Pradesh. The five cities are Gwalior, Ujjain, Sagar, Jabalpur and Dewas

The group aims to participate to build integrated smarter communities across major cities of the state. This will be done by undertaking projects in power and water distribution services, municipal solid waste management, sewage treatment, drainage and storm water management, city wi-fi and, cable and broadband, city gas distribution and intelligent traffic management system.


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