The housing ministry on April 26, 2023, made live the City Beautiful Competition with the launch of an official website. Urban-local bodies (ULBs) across the country can participate in this competition through an online process. “The objective of the competition is to encourage and recognise the transformational efforts made by cities and wards across the country to create beautiful, innovative and inclusive public spaces,” the ministry said in an official statement.
Under this competition, wards and public spaces in cities would be judged against five broad pillars:
Accessibility
Amenities
Activities
Aesthetics
Ecology
The competition would felicitate the most beautiful wards and public spaces in the cities. While selected wards would be felicitated at the city-and-state levels. The most beautiful public spaces in cities under four categories — waterfronts, green spaces, tourist/ heritage spaces and market/commercial places — would first be felicitated at the state level and the shortlisted entries would thereafter be considered for the national-level awards.
The last date for participating in the competition is July 15, 2023. Participating ULBs can submit the required data/documents (including photographs, videos, presentation and self-reported baseline information) through the online facility created on https://citybeautycompetition.in. The Administrative Staff College of India, the knowledge partner for the programme, will provide handholding support to wards/ULBs/states in this exercise.
The competition provides a unique opportunity to wards and cities to showcase their interventions towards creating beautiful public spaces. The competition would promote heritage and culture, sustainable communities and ecological conservation and would also encourage peer learning among states and cities.
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