Panjim city could be ‘intelligent’ by beginning of next year

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February 2019. That’s the deadline for Panjim city to become an ‘intelligent’ or ‘smart’ city. According to TOI, the state capital’s intelligent city management system could be up and running by then. This will enable citizens to enjoy services such as smart parking, city-wide Wi-Fi network and efficient solid waste management. Work to turn Panjim […]

Goan start-up gearing up to light up Smart Cities in India

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India’s urban development sector is one of those areas which has sustained a significant technological boost in the past couple of years. With projects like “Smart Cities Mission”, the government has been aggressively investing and pushing forward innovation country wide. In this period, various start-ups have come forward as well for modernizing the archaic methods […]

C-Trains –The answer to commuters’ transit woes?

It’s been almost 12 years since the failure of  the famed Sky Bus project in Goa, supposed to be a mass transit solution to the city’s traffic woes. However will the new C-Train concept be capable of answering commuters’ transit woes?  A Caterpillar Train (C-Train) System was a plan devised by Ashwini Kumar, engineer of Indian Railways […]