PROJECT PREPAREDNESS FRAMEWORK SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION IN LOW-INCOME SETTLEMENTS City InvestmentsCITIIS To Innovate, Integrate and Sustain Project Preparedness Framework - Social and Organizational Innovation in Low-income Settlements City Investments To Innovate, Integrate and Sustain Chennai - Model and Smart Corporation Schools in Chennai Puducherry - Our Neighbourhood is Your Neighbourhood Too - A Participatory Planning Approach for Improvement of Low-Income Settlements in Puducherry Amaravati - Basic Infrastructure Development in Low-income Settlements in Amaravati City Visakhapatnam - Social Inclusion through modernizing Public Schools as Smart Campus Prepared by Anjum Dhamija, ​​​​​Swapnil Saxena, Totak Acharya Anuradha Yagya, A.N. Nanda Kishore, Naim Keruwala, Nidhi Misra, Siddharth Pandit Graphic Design Deep Pahwa, Devender S Rawat, Bhavnesh Bhanot The ‘Supporting Smart Cities Mission for a more inclusive and sustainable urban development in India’ is a joint program of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Agence française de développement (AFD), European Union (EU), and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA). It aims at putting in place a complementary instrument for the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) to provide financing incentives and technical support for demonstrative projects that were selected through a competitive process. It supports projects of excellence, and builds the capacity of Urban Local Bodies to implement integrated projects. The program will also develop peer learning activities, develop cooperation between smart cities and enhance the capitalisation of best practices at state and national levels. A core component of this program is City Investments to Innovate, Integrate, and Sustain (CITIIS). Twelve projects have been selected across twelve smart cities under the program through a challenge process. The CITIIS Program Management Unit (PMU) established at NIUA started visiting the Smart City Special Purpose Vehicle (SPVs) soon after the tripartite agreements were signed in March, 2019. This handbook provides the initial assessment of projects as per the project proposal submitted by the SPV and observations of the CITIIS PMU from the city visits. CHENNAI A. Project Information in the city. In general, there is declining willingness of Project Name: Model and Smart Corporation Schools in students to go to school. Despite high literacy in Tamil Chennai Nadu, learning levels fall behind pass percentage. Data Project Owner: Chennai Smart City Limited (CSCL) from the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) for the CITIIS Thematic Area: Social and Organizational state of Tamil Nadu reveals that Chennai District ranked Innovation in Low-Income Settlements 20 out of 30 in Class 3 learning levels in the state schools by MHRD. Around 46 percent students in Chennai go to City Profile: school without interest in learning and public education • Population: 46,46,732 is characterized by outdated pedagogy, lack of state-of- • Area: 175 sq. kms. art infrastructure and experiential learning.1 On the other • Density: 26,553 person per sq. kms. hand there is a definite preference of private schools over • Literacy Rate: 90.18 percent public ones by the society. • Ease of Living Index Rank, 2018: 14 *Census of India, 2011 & Ease of Living Index 2018 There are a total of 281 schools in the city, established by the Greater Chennai Corporation Majority of the children B. Project Description belonging to the low income households attend public The project, ‘Model and Smart Corporation Schools schools, as the private counterpart is expensive. In in Chennai,’ aims to pro-actively enhance the learning Chennai, children belonging to over 85,000 low-income experiences of children in public schools. households are enrolled in municipal schools. However, the schools lack modern, state-of-art, technologically Even though literacy rate in Chennai is 90.18 percent driven learning infrastructure. This limits students higher than the state average of 80.3 percent, the need learning experience and exposure. The proposed project for the project arises due to the declining learning levels envisages a revamp of corporation schools, especially to 1 Data from Project Application submitted by Chennai Smart City Limited for CITIIS 2 Project Preparedness Framework: Chennai benefit children from low-income families. I. Project Objectives 1. Enhance the overall learning experience of students The Model and Smart Corporation Schools Project in corporation schools into a holistic, interesting, envisages complete transformation of 10-15 selected enriching and rewarding experience. corporation schools, through interventions in the 2. Arrest the falling learning levels in public schools following areas: in the short run and increase learning levels across 1. Physical Infrastructure; corporation schools in the long run. 2. Digital & Experience Infrastructure; 3. Provide experiential learning zones such as science 3. Teacher Training & Skill Up-gradation; innovation labs, experience labs and other such 4. Extra-curricular Activities & Soft Skills; practical training zones in the selected project 5. Strengthening of Institutions & Stakeholders; schools so as to boost the interest factor in learning 6. Collaboration with Industry, Academia & NGO’s; and for kids. 7. Smart Pedagogy and Evaluation Methods. 4. Promote self and digital learning among students, by equipping them with modern learning infrastructure Curio Kids and Rockefeller Foundation have been such as tablets, wi-fi enables classrooms etc. identified potential partners for adding strategic value in 5. Create an analytics based student monitoring tool, to the project along with support from NIUA and AFD. track and gauge student performance real time. 6. Create an avenue for every student to follow their Chennai Smart City Limited has implemented a smart talents, natural abilities along with keeping them classroom project under the Smart Cities Mission in 28 abreast of what the world offers. schools around the city in association with Samsung on 7. Creating a robust stakeholder (teachers, students, a CSR initiative. community) capacity building framework keeping in mind all their interests. City Investments to Innovate, Integrate, and Sustain (CITIIS) 3 II. Proposed Project Components No. Area Based Components Characteristics SCM Feature 1 Physical Infrastructure Sub-projects mentioned as Education • Vibrant Classrooms characteristics in the proposal. • Tinkering Labs • Language Labs • Green Campuses • Rooftop Horticulture Gardens 2 Digital & Experience Infrastructure Education • Science Tinkering Labs • VR driven experience labs • Tablets for all • Wi-fi enabled Campus • Digital Classrooms 3 Extra-Curricular Activities Education • Sports Facilities Non-area Based Components 1. Teacher Training and Skill Upgradation Components detailed out in • Teacher Exchange Programmes presentation submitted by the SPV • International Skill Development Training, and not in project application. • Youth for Teaching Concept 2. Extra-Curricular Activities and Soft Skills: - - • Value education • Life skills • Exposure on World and Opportunities • Social Labs 3. Strengthening of Institutions and Stakeholders - - • Strengthening “Parent-Teacher-Student” trinity, Revitalising Parent Teacher Associations, Increasing Accountability 4. Collaboration with Industry, Academia & NGO’s - - 5. SMART Pedagogy and Evaluation Methods - - • Digital Learning (repeated component) • Virtual & Technology driven teaching assistance (repeated component) • Modern Student Progress Tracking Framework etc., SMART Pedagogy and Evaluation Methods, Digital Learning (repeated component), • Virtual & Technology driven teaching assistance (repeated component) Modern Student Progress Tracking Framework etc 4 Project Preparedness Framework: Chennai III. Selection Criteria Relevance & Feasibility • Proposal aims at augmenting the public transport fleet (BRTS) in Amritsar city with e-buses. This will significantly increase the modal share from 1.5 to 20 per cent. • Integration of e-rickshaws with e-buses for last mile connectivity. • Convergence of the project with ICT initiatives launched under the Smart Cities Mission. • Amritsar Smart City Limited (ASCL) and Amritsar City Transport Services Ltd (ACTSL) shall be responsible for planning and implementation of the project. • ASCL will be responsible for procurement of e-buses and ACTSL would be responsible for operations. • Procured e-buses and vehicle infrastructure is envisaged to be accessible for all, including persons with disabilities. • The SPV envisages to capture funds through monetizing land banks, improvisation of property taxes, betterment costs and cess for improved service delivery. Sustainability Aspects • A key element of this project is equitable access of the public transport system to all the city residents. • The envisioned e-bus services will enable a cost-effective mode of commute. Further the project also provides the comfortable and convenient way of travel to disabled/ senior citizens. • Convergence of the project with other IT related initiatives (e.g. ICCC project) launched under Smart City Mission, will help in creating a safe and secured environment, especially for women. • Reservations in the proposed transport system for women. • ACTSL shall select a suitable private operator who shall be responsible for running the buses on the defined routes based upon the predefined rules, regulations and associated covenants. • Reduction in