M U N I C I P A L CORPORATION, E-Newsletter

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1V NOV — D E C ’ 2 0 1 5

I N S I D E Monumental National Flag at Ridge THIS ISSUE:

Monumental 1 Monumental Flag—flagged AMRUT Mission 1 by Hon’ble Chief Minister Buara Disaster 2 H.P. Shri. Virbhadra Hazard Risk 2 Singh. Assessment

Early Warning 2 System

Employee wel- 3 Hon‟ble Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, , on Dec 17‟ 2015 hoisted a 100 feet tall national fare fund flag at the historic Ridge Maidan here, which was the third such flag in the state after Kullu and Dalhousie. The Chief Minister witnessed the band concert and march past by the Indian Army along with Lt. Gen. P M Heritage walk 3 Hariz, GoC-in-C of ARTRAC, Shimla and Lt Gen Raman Dhawan. The Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) roped in Tourism Department and SJVNL, which bore the cost of this monumental flag and its installation World Toilet 3 cost of about Rs. 14 Lakhs. SMC Deputy Mayor Tikender Panwar said, “The Tricolour is our national pride Day and instills a sense of patriotism and what can be a better place to hoist the flag than Shimla which is not only an internationally renowned city and the erstwhile summer capital of British .” World Bank 4 $2,00,000 grant

Swach Bharat 4 Mobile App AMRUT Mission for Rs. 187.75 Cr approved for Shimla by Centre On street park- 4 ing

Homes to Ur- 4 ban poor Government of India, under the Mission for Shimla city for was presented by Commis- Chairmanship of Secretary, Min- projects worth Rs. 52 crores sioner, Municipal Corporation Other High- 5 istry of Urban Development upto March 2016 and Rs. Shimla to Apex committee lights approved the plan for AMRUT 158.82 crores for next three chaired by Secretary, Ministry of Mission at New Delhi on 10 years upto 2018. The first Urban Development and at-

Dec‟ 2015. Central Government instalment shall be released tended by various officers and approved the State Annual Ac- before 31st December 2015. expert at Delhi for AMRUT tion Plan (SAAP) under AMRUT The SAAP for AMRUT Mission Mission. P A G E 2

‘बुआरे’ (Building Urban Action for Resilience in Emergencies) BUARE is an initiative taken up by and to prepare ward disaster man- Mayor, M C Shimla. Sh. Kamal MC, Shimla, under which series of agement plans. Play on Disaster Kishore, Member, National Dis- trainings on Community based Management and exhibition on aster Management Authority, Ms. Disaster Risk Management Ward level Multi hazard and Re- Abha Mishra, National Project (CBDRM) at ward level from July source Map were organized on Coordinator, UNDP-India and to December 2015 with the sup- 23rd December, 2015 with coop- Ms Balka Deo, Programme Spe- port of H.P. State Disaster Man- eration of Department of Lan- cialist, USAID. agement Authority and United guage, Art and Culture at Gaiety Nations Development Program , Theatre, Shimla. The exhibition India were conducted. The pur- was inaugurated by Sh. Sanjay pose of these trainings were to Chauhan, Hon‟ble Mayor and Sh. Buare play at Gaeity prepare citizens for emergencies Tikender Panwar, Hon‟ble Dy Theatre

Workshop on Hazard Risk Vulnerability Assessment of Shimla

UNDP-India has taken an ini- from various concerned de- Pradesh have also attended tiative to conduct a study on partments and stakeholders to the meeting. „Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability make this report more effec- Assessment of Shimla City‟ tive, actionable and useful. Sh. under GOI-UNDP Project on Kamal Kishore, Member, Na- „Urban Climate Risk Manage- tional Disaster Management ment through Disaster Prepar- Authority, Ms. Abha Mishra, “Building edness and Mitigation‟. The National Project Coordinator, work has been awarded by UNDP-India and Ms Balka Resilient Shimla” UNDP-India to Taru Leading Deo, Programme Specialist, Edge. The workshop in this USAID, Sh. D D Sharma, Spe- regard was organized on 23rd cial Secretary, Revenue- December, 2015 and its pur- Disaster Management Cell of pose was to seek comments Government of Himachal Workshop on Early Warning of Shimla City on 30th November, 2015.

The workshop on Early Warning System was organized under GoI-UNDP project on Hon’ble Urban Climate Risk Management through Mayor Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation. The Shimla Shri. purpose of the workshop was to design Sanjay strategy to prepare an Action Plan of Early Chauhan at Warning of Shimla city. The short term poster pres- initiatives were also design during the entation for workshop under the guidance of Dr Ajit disaster. Tyagi, Former Director General of Indian Meteorological Department, Government of India. Hon’ble Deputy Mayor speaking during workshop

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Hon‟ble Chief Minister Shri. Virbhadra Singh launched Welfare Fund. Subsequently to sustain few hundred the Employee Welfare Fund for meeting the unforeseen rupees shall be contributed from each employee from emergencies for Municipal Corporation Shimla Employ- his/her salary and the fund accumulated could be used ees. The Municipal Commissioner and Assistant Commis- by the employees in the time of emergency. sioner contributed Rs. 1500 each and all other HODs contributed Rs. 1000/- each to initiate this Employee Heritage Walk under Swachh Bharat Mission

As a part of Swachh Bharat Mis- people not to litter during their litter the city and be a part of every sion‟s “Theme Based Cleanliness visit to the city were also displayed efforts being made by Municipal Drive”, Municipal Corporation along the walk and people were Corporation Shimla to make the Shimla organized a Heritage walk appealed through distribution of city clean and beautiful so that it for creating awareness among the pamphlets also to join the initiative retains its Historical, Ecological as tourists visiting the city to keep the for making city litter free. The well as Aesthetic value. “Clean city clean. The occasion was graced Swachhta Helpline- 1916 was also Shimla by the presence of Hon‟ble Mayor put into display so that more and of MC Shimla and The Commis- more people are made aware of Green sioner, MC Shimla. Hon‟ble Mayor this helpline to report any littering flagged off the “walk” from Histori- around the city. The walk termi- Shimla” cal Church on Ridge Ground. Head nated at Ambedkar Chowk, Chaura of the Departments of various de- Maidan having more than 200 par- partments of MC Shimla, other ticipants. officers and sanitation workers of Hon‟ble Mayor & Commissioner MC Shimla too participated in the MC Shimla also appealed to the event. The banners for appealing general public of Shimla city not to Hand-wash Activity on World Toilet Day 19-11-2015

On the occasion of World Toilet First of all PIU team described the activity. After this, PIU moved towards Day i.e. 19th November,2015 Pro- objectives and benefits of the activity the Leprosy Colony at Down-dale and ject Implementation Unit (PIU) of and then practically demonstrated performed the hand-wash activity after SMC-EU Project organized “Hand- the steps to be followed during wash- gathering children, women & other wash Activity” at Krishnanagar and ing the hands. Handbills/brochures residents of the colony. 65 participants Downdale (Leprosy Colony) areas depicting the eight steps of hand- comprising mainly children of age of Shimla Municipal Corporation washing and slogans were also dis- group 4-12yrs. and women actively focusing mainly on children, women tributed; soap-bar was also distrib- participated in the activity and most of & schools within these slum areas. uted as a gift to the participants who them after learning & watching demon- The main motive of the activity was demonstrated all the eight steps strated the entire eight steps to be to sensitize public to adopt healthy while washing their hands. Similarly followed while washing hands. In the & hygienic habits in their daily rou- the same activity was performed with schools, students were also enlight- tines along with spreading & sharing the students of 8th & 9th class at ened about the decentralized mode of the same message to all in their Govt. High School, Krishnanagar, solid waste management. Radio FM surroundings too. The hand-wash during which 45 students, 8 teachers also heighted the activities carried out activity was initiated in a locality of and other staff actively participated in by PIU. At the end of the day the ac- Krishnanagar, near Love Kush this activity. Further, the activity was tivity was concluded at round about Chowk with the group of 15-20 continued at Govt. Primary School, 03:30 P.M. and almost 200 children people residing there, mainly con- Lalpani, where 45 students, 5 school were sensitized. sisting women and small children. teachers & staff participated in the P A G E 4 World Bank prepared Green Growth City Plan with Shimla city

World Bank and PwC, through these International agencies. The and eco-friendly manner and series of meetings and discus- aim of the city diagnostic toolkit utilize Information Technology sions prepared, compiled the is to prepare a framework, for to the best possible way. City Diagnostic Toolkit under selection of right developmental Green Growth for Indian cities interventions for cities in various project in consultation with sectors such as water, sanitation, Shimla Municipal Corporation. drainage, transport, Information Apart from Shimla— Hubli and and Communication Technology Panjim cities were also selected etc. so that the cities may be from across the country by able to develop in a more green

World Bank PwC Panel Discussion— Panjim, Shimla & Hubli Swachh Bharat Toilet Locator Mobile App “Building Shimla

Sustainably” Shimla is the first one to map all the or west-ern) and paid or free ser- public toilets on Swacch Bharat Toilet vice are available under the toilet locator tool . Now one can easily details with pictures. In this initia- locate the toilets if you have a smart tive 63 public toilets within Munici- phone. Just download the Swachh pal limits were mapped through Bharat Toilet locator app from google GPS and up-loaded on the mobile Play and enter the location. All the app for the benefit of the general details like opening and closing hours public. of toilet and number of seats (Indian Paid on street parking on Cart Road, Shimla

Municipal Corporation Shimla, in order to remove awarded the work. This project will not only regulate the troubles faced by the general public of facing the onstreet parking but also generate additional in- the ire of traffic challans by parking their vehicles come for the Municipal Corporation. on road has initiated for the first time—on street The project of regulating the street parking at this parking project on PPP mode. The tender of which major level is a first initiative of Shimla and if successful World Bank, PwC, Architectus, have been released and the lowest bidder shall be can be made smarter by use of relevant technology. Panel Discussion— Panjim, Shimla & Hubli Homes given to BPL families under Ashiana II

Municipal Corporation Shimla under its flagship Shimla city. Based upon the criteria and guidelines programme Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP) finalized & approved by Hon‟ble MC House. The first under JNNURM, in 1st Phase 05 families were names were received by MC, Shimla before 15th July‟ allotted houses near Dhalli Tunnel, Shimla by 15 which was the cut off date along with the names of Hon‟ble Chief Minister, GoHP, The scheme en- 2 potential beneficiaries from each Hon‟ble Coun- visages allocation of 94 houses to BPL families in cilor.

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Houses under Ashiana - II, Dhalli, Shimla VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1V P A G E 5

OTHER SPECIAL HIGH- LIGHTS

 Book Café and new cash branch inaugurated near Padamdev Complex by Hon’ble Chief Minister, H.P. at Ridge, Shimla.

 Road Tarring of 40 kms road completed by Road & Building department, MC Shimla.

 Property tax recovery of about Rs. 14 crores.

 Recovery of unpaid rent by estates of about Rs. 6 crore.

 Water bill recovery estimated to be Rs 25 crore by March 2016.

 Pilot testing of Climate Resilient Index in Shimla city by ARUP international Development

 Signed up for Earth Hour City Challenge 2015 – 16

 Team from Municipal Corporation Shimla visited City of Boulder under CitiLink’s Climate Adaptation Part- nership Programme (CAPP)-2015

 Received a grant of Rs.19,21,114/- from ICLEI South Asia for implementation of project on ‘Rejuvenating the traditional water sources to augment water secu- rity in Shimla Municipal Corporation Area

Municipal Corporation, Shimla

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