Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...

Municipal Corporation (PMC) is on a list of 100 smart cities declared by the

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for development under the Smart Cities Mission. Pune's quest for better urban living got a boost as it was listed among 100 cities selected by the Union Government of India. As a pre-condition, Pune will need to prepare a city-level plan of its own, which will be evaluated in the second stage of the competition based on a broad set of criteria. At the end, the Union government will select 20 cities that will receive funds for this financial year."List of 98 Smart Cities"
''Business Today'' PMC has organized a contest for citizens on 'How to make Pune a smart city’ towards Citizen's participation.

Initiatives

The Digital Pune Hackathon 2015 was inaugurated in the presence of Pune Municipal Commissioner Kunal Kumar. The hackathon has been organised to seek digital solutions to several problems faced by the city in the quest to become a Smart City. Top projects will be selected for implementation in the city by various bodies like PMC, PCMC, PMRDA and PMPML. In January 2018,

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announced that it was rolling out

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, a Wi-Fi hotspot solution, in

as a part of the Smart City Pune initiative, working with

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References

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