According to the pre-feasibility report submitted by Toshiba, Manesar will soon be home to the country’s first Eco-city pilot intiative.
The Eco-city project was conceived during the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Japan as part of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor initiative. A memorandum of understanding was signed between the two sides for such projects and subsequently Maharashtra, Gujarat and Haryana were identified as the sites for this project. Based on the survey and discussions, IMT Manesar was chosen for the pilot initiative.
Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation (HSIIDC) Managing Director Rajeev Arora revealed the feasibility report would now be studied and analysed in detail within HSIIDC, after which they will give their comments and suggestions for the final inputs and to chalk out the road map for implementation of the project. He further informed that the feasibility study covered such areas as water, water recycling, power, logistics, solid waste management and transportation and that the same had been funded by the Ministry of Economic Trade and Investment, Japan government. The implementation for the project would be through a special purpose vehicle comprising Japanese and Indian sides, which would be finalised after the state government’s approval.
An Eco-city is defined as a city in which citizens, business and government sustainably work, live and interact through delivery of integrated, low carbon products and services. The objective of this project is to build a new industrial community to maximise welfare of the people and minimise carbon emission and the above vision can be achieved by integrating technology across water, waste, energy, transportation and safety infrastructure while taking measures like maximum utilisation of renewable resources for electricity supply, minimum loss of natural resources and others.
