Why in News ?
Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs has launched the Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0, along with the ‘Streets for People Challenge.
About Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0
- The objective of CSCAF is to provide a clear roadmap for cities towards combating Climate Change while planning and implementing their actions.
- Need for Framework
- In the last decade an increasing frequency of cyclones, floods, heat waves, water scarcity and drought-like conditions have had adverse impacts on many of our cities.
- Such extreme events and risks cause loss of life as well as impact the economic growth.
- To inculcate a climate-sensitive approach to urban planning and development in India.
- The framework has 28 indicators across five categories namely
- Energy and Green Buildings
- Urban Planning, Green Cover & Biodiversity
- Mobility and Air Quality
- Water Management
- Waste Management
Streets for People Challenge
- To the need for making our cities more walk able and pedestrian friendly.
- The Challenge builds on the advisory issued by MoHUA for the holistic planning for pedestrian-friendly market spaces.
- The Challenge will support cities across the country to develop a unified vision of streets for people in consultation with stakeholders and citizens.
- Adopting a participatory approach, cities will be guided to launch their own design competitions to gather innovative ideas from professionals for quick, innovative, and low-cost tactical solutions.
- Inspire cities to create walking-friendly and vibrant streets through quick, innovative, and low-cost measures.
- Cities encouraged to use the test-learn-scale approach to initiate both flagship and neighbourhood walking interventions.
- The interventions can include creating pedestrian-friendly streets in high footfall areas.
- Re-imagining under-flyover spaces.
- Re-vitalizing dead neighbourhood spaces.
- Creating walking links through parks and institutional areas.
- Who were in the run ?
- Fit India Mission under Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
- India program of the Institute for Transport Development and Policy (ITDP) have partnered with the Smart Cities Mission to support the challenge.
Smart Cities Mission
- Objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens,
- Also clean and sustainable environment and application of Smart Solutions.
- The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas
- The Smart Cities Mission is meant to set examples that can be replicated both within and outside the Smart City creation of similar Smart Cities in various regions and parts of the country.
- What are the core Elements ?
- Adequate water supply
- Assured electricity supply
- Sanitation, including solid waste management
- Efficient urban mobility and public transport
- Affordable housing, especially for the poor
- Robust IT connectivity and digitalization
- Good governance, especially e-Governance and citizen participation
- Sustainable environment
- Safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children and the elderly
- Health and education.
- Total number of 100 Smart Cities have been distributed among the States and UTs
- Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) and the Central Government proposes to give financial support to the Mission to the extent of Rs. 48,000 crores over five years.
Source : PIB
Topic
Prelims : Smart Cities Mission, Streets for People Challenge, Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0
GS III : Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc
Current Affairs Compilation : 12 September 2020