Civic Chief Aurangabad Awarded for Smart City project Initiatives

Municipal Commissioner and CEO, Aurangabad Smart City Development Corporation Limited ( ASCDCL), Nipun Vinayak has been recently awarded Smart Cities Council India's, smart City Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) CEO award.

Apparently, ASCDCL is the SPV formed for the implementation of Smart City Project in Aurangabad. The selection of the awardee comes after an online poll held on the website of Smart Cities Council India for the best smart city SPV CEO. Vinayak was awarded at Smart Urbanation Convention and Expo 2019, a forum organized in Bengaluru on last 25th September.

Nipun Vinayak had taken charge of the office of Aurangabad Municipal corporation (AMC) on May 15, 2018 and also took charge of ASCDCL as its CEO. Before his appointment, no projects of Smart City has taken off in the city under the Smart City Mission. However, after taking charge of the office, Vinayak brought momentum into the pending proposals and several projects were mooted.

Introduction of Smart City bus services in public-public partnership with Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) was one of the key achievement of Vinayak. 

Over the last one year, the contract of establishing a Master System Integrator for centralized monitoring of civic amenities and surveillance for Law and Order Management has also been awarded.