This city will house Maharashtra’s first naval museum

29 Oct 2022 CW Team

Incepted in 2016, the Kalyan Dombivali Smart City had identified transformation of its waterfronts and safe and smooth transportation as key areas. Pralhad Rode, CEO, shares more on the city’s progress….

Benefit of events like SU to India’s Smart City Mission
The platform facilitates exchange of information that can help us improve the projects going on in the city.

Impact of the pandemic on project timelines
Some of our civil construction works were impacted due to non-availability of workers. We have extended the timelines for these projects and are working hard towards meeting these.

Owing to the pandemic, we had made extensive use of IT and our integrated command centre,for which we had placed first in the rankings along with Varanasi Smart City.

Dream project

I wouldn’t pick a dream project as such but our commissioner, Dr Vijay Suryawanshi,has a dream project to set up Maharashtra’s first naval museum.

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