SRINAGAR
STEPS
TOWARDS SMART CITY
Aqib Iqbal , Civil 1st
Semester
4th, April, 2018
Everything
in this world when created from its initial shape want to get modified in the
more advanced form. It is the feature of everything which possess the power of
selection between two different things, for non living things which humans
created this feature is absent in them, but it is the responsibility of those
persons who created it, to reform it when necessary, so that it will not loose
its existence in this fast reforming world.
As
we see today lots of new strange things came into existence as a result of
innovative engineers. They not only build a particular structure but also
maintains it, so that it will never claim to them that it was created and left
alone with no care. It is the same thing which happened with Srinagar, built and
left alone without care and Srinagar is claiming about its situation to those
political leaders and engineers who daily cross Jahangir chowk but never look down to the roads, govt. properties, and people in the dust .
I
personally feel can I do something? But
soon I realized I can do even by writing a single article about the current
situation of Srinagar. We should take steps if they are not so effective, at least
we will feel if Allah (swt) will ask us what we did we will be able to say
something before Almighty. I am putting forward list of some steps which should
be taken for a real smart city project.
A
city to be called a smart city should possess well developed roads, traffic
free lanes, safe roads for different type of transport, effective drainage
system, well equipped infrastructure and well maintained public parks. For our
Srinagar a big problem we are facing is heavy traffic and odd diversions. A
system should be created in which first it should be evaluated how much traffic
holding capacity Srinagar possess, after that it should be decided when traffic
load exceeds beyond holding capacity. After analyzing the data, incoming and outgoing traffic should be so
maintained that not a single car should block at certain place in Srinagar at
this particular time. Also illegal parking should be completely banned as I
feel they are contributing a big portion in traffic jams daily. So if these
steps will be taken I feel we will be able to solve the traffic crises at a
huge level.
I
feel a big challenge for us is the flood channel running in the Rambagh portion
which then extends and thus covers a large region including Srinagar. Last time
flood destroyed Srinagar city almost completely, I know if we will design effective
water drainage system still it will not hold the whole flood water, but we can
minimize its effects if we will able to find a way in which we can shift flood
water to a particular place which can absorb or at least store huge amount of
water when flood channel will be unable to hold flood water. We can’t design
flood channel so that it can hold flood water whole, Srinagar water drainage
system should be designed in a way so
that it will break the flood water flow into small streams containing flood
water and then sent it to the reservoir or somewhere else where it could be
stored.
At
last most important feature of a smart city Srinagar should be its easy connectivity
with rest valley. Connectivity in the sense that hospitals, government offices
,schools should be at a place where every portion of valley will reach easily. Hospitals
should be at least on the boundary of city because emergency cases should be as
soon as possible shifted to hospitals but unfortunately in the interior of city
they face the traffic jams and resulting in the death of those patients which
could be saved if they will be treated on time. If schools, govt. offices will
be on one side of city, hospitals should be on opposite or far way from that
side as merging them results all the problems which we are facing today. Markets
should be at the centre of city and rest which I mentioned above should be
placed at proper places. Garbage deposition sites should be far away from human
sites as Srinagar today is a city covered with garbage only. So if these sites
will be separated from human colonies it will result a disease free environment.
A special system should be created in which it should be decided how to treat
this garbage.
Pollution
is also a part of our Srinagar city so I thing a best method for traffic
pollution control is to adopt odd even rule
for personal vehicles.
Smart
city does not means only well developed infrastructure, rather it should
possess all basic facilities to its citizens including fresh environment and
crime free atmosphere also.
I
in the whole article repeated system in almost every section, it is because I
think system is the basic thing which leads to the development, for our Kashmir
administrative system should also be smart
enough so that not a single case of corruption should be unregistered. As
polluted political system is the biggest barrier to the development, to develop
the smart system we should develop first the system of clean politics in valley. It means every Kashmiri
should participate in nation building and create the smart valley, not only
smart city. Our every system should be smart i.e. our political, social, economic and
religious harmony as well as unity among majority religion Islam in the valley.
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