In the second round of competitions for Smart City Mission (SCM) and the fast tract category, Kohima, the state capital has been selected among the 15 cities which is pretty pleasing news. But so far, the proposals and strategies specified from different angles by the citizens seem to be inapt for the Mission because of the landownershipissueshindering the development. That’s the sad part!
As we see it, the land in Kohima town is quite meagre and it cannot be developed to its full potentiality if the people are unwilling to forgo their land. Moreover, the widening of traffic lanes will incur multiple problems to the Mission as compensation levied uponthe concerned Project will be too heavy. So, this idea of lane-widening in town is not a very good idea to bring about the smart development in the city.
Therefore, to make Kohima a Smart city, the Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) can propose to come up with flyovers in the town so that there can be less compensations and more concrete works putin the construction of flyovers. The flyovers can be constructed with new technologies with noise and dust barriersat different important locations/junctions. These will actually relieve and help in the decongestion of traffic movement in Kohima town.
Vebu Khamo, Kohima Bible College.
