Advisory No. 22: Standard operating procedure for cyber security of smart city lnfrastructure
Issued By: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
standard operating procedure for cyber security of smart city lnfrastructure.
Advisory No. 21: Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) – Keeping informed about your delegations’ programme to Indian Embassy at Spain
Issued By: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) – Keeping informed about your delegations’ programme to Indian Embassy at Spain
Advisory No. 1: Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to guide the establishment of SPV
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Subject: SPV establishment and converting Plans to Projects.
Advisory No. 2: Preparing DPR/RFP for Pan City Smart Solutions.
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Subject: Preparing DPR/RFP for Pan City Smart Solutions
Advisory No. 3: Engagement of Key Managerial Posts and Human Resources in SPVs
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Subject: Engagement of Key Managerial Posts and Human Resources in SPVs The SPV will be required to appoint Key Managerial Persons (KMPs) i.e. Chief Executive Officer, Company Secretary and Chief Finance Officer as per requirement of the Companies Act, 2013. In addition SPVs may also need to enga...
Advisory No. 4: Promotion of Payments through Cards and Digital Means in Smart Cities
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Subject: Promotion of Payments through cards and digital means in the Smart Cities.
Advisory No. 5: Empanelment of Transaction Advisors for providing technical assistance to Urban Local Bodies in issuing municipal bonds in the Smart Cities.
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Advisory No. 6: Strategy for Smart Health in Smart Cities Mission
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
One of the purposes of the Smart Cities Mission is to improve quality of life, especially of the poor, in order to make Smart Cities inclusive in nature (Guidelines 2.6). At present, private out of pocket expenses (OOPE) on health comprises 64% of total health spending in India. The broad scope of w...
Advisory No. 7: Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Development of Smart Infrastructure
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Based on the advice of Department of Telecommunications (DoT), the Ministry of Urban Development under the Smart Cities Mission has issued the following advisory for consiering while planning and creating Smart Infrastructure. ...
Advisory No. 8: Engagement of Merchant Banker
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
To provide support to the Smart Cities in issuance of Municipal Bond, MoUD under the CBUD programme of World Bank is funding their Credit Rating. A panel of Transaction Advisors has also been prepared and circulated by MoUD vide OM No. K.14012/101(16)-SCM-III-V dated 24th October 2016. These Transac...
Advisory No. 9: Standards and Specifications of National Common Mobility Card
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
The National Urban Transport Policy under the Ministry of Urban Development envisages a single fare media over all systems of public transport for Interoperable Fare Management System (IFMS). This single fare media will bring a seamless travel connectivity across different modes of transport and dif...
Advisory No. 10: Laying of Common Duct for OFC network in Smart Cities on Public Private Partnership (PPP) DBOT Hybrid Annuity Model
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India

The Smart Cities Mission guidelines para no. 6.2 gives the essential features in a smart city. One such feature is visible improvement in the area (e.g. replacing overhead wiring with underground wiring. In addition, paras 2.4 & 2.5 of the guidelines identify implementation of robust IT connecti...
Advisory No. 11: Strategy for ensuring Universal Access IT systems to empower citizens with disability to access these systems with ease
Issued By: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India
The objective of Smart Cities Mission (SCM) is to improve the quality of life of citizens living in cities in an inclusive way. Hence it is imperative that all the projects taken up under the Area Based Development and Pan city Smart Solutions should be disabled friendly. Many cities have included d...
Advisory No. 12: Setting up smart classrooms in Government schools in the 100 smart cities under Smart Cities Mission
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Advisory No. 13: Project management and monitoring under MIS of Smart City Mission
Issued By: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India
Under the Smart City Mission (SCM), cities have prepared their Smart City Proposal (SCP) that is appropriate to its local context, resources and levels of ambition. The SCP contains the vision, plan for mobilisation of resources and intended outcomes in terms of infrastructure up-gradation and smart...
Advisory No. 14: Appointment of full time CEO in SPVs of Smart Cities
Issued By:
Smart Cities Mission (SCM) guidelines states that Smart City Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Companies will be headed by a full-time CEO. Further, with regard to appointment of Key Managerial Persons (CEO, CS and CFO) as required under Companies Act, 2013 and the eligibility criteria selection of thes...
Advisory No. 15: Tripartite Agreement between Smart Cities SPV, Government Line Departments / Agencies and the prospective Bidder in smart city projects
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Advisory No. 16: Concept of Sister Cities to speed-up implementation of SCM in Laggard Cities
Issued By: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Advisory No. 17: Smart Cities response to COVID-19
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
Advisory No. 18: Implementation of Pan city ICT solutions/Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCCs) in Smart Cities
Issued By: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Cities under the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) have undertaken several initiatives in the effort to make their cities ‘smart’. Many of the projects being undertaken by the cities include technology interventions under ICT solutions that seek to create a digital layer in urban governance. In order to st...
Advisory No.19: Release of Model RFP 2.0 for Integrated Command and Control Centres (ICCCs)/Information and Communications Technology (ICT) projects
Issued By: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Advisory on Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management Services
Issued By: Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organization (CPHEEO)
solid waste management is an obligatory function of the urban local bodies, this service has been poorly performed by most of them resulting in problems of public health, sanitation, and environmental degradation. With rapid pace of urbanization, the situation is becoming more and more critical day-...
Advisory No. 20: SmartProcure-Guidelines on Procurement of solutions on City Innovation Exchange Platform
Issued By: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Advisory on Septage Management in Urban India
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
A major part of Urban India is yet to be provided with sewer system and the people are mainly dependent on conventional individual septic tanks. Census of India 2011 results show 30 million urban households (38 percent of urban households) have septic tanks. USAID (2010) estimates, that by 2017, abo...
Advisory of Contract Conditions for Project Execution under HRIDAY
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development
As we are aware that DPRs from various cities are getting approved in regular interval. Projects worth Rs. 147 crore has already been approved in the HNEC meeting, now the scheme is gaining momentum in project execution phase. City Mission Directorates are in the process of selecting contractors thr...
Recent Trends in Technologies in Sewerage System
Issued By: Ministry of Urban Development
As per Census 2001, 30.66 million urban households which form 35.49% of the urban households suffer inadequate access to sanitation. According to the report of the Central Pollution Control Board (2009), the estimated sewage generation from Class - I Cities and Class - II Towns is 38254.82 million l...