{"id":30609,"date":"2020-07-30T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30609"},"modified":"2020-07-30T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:54:24","slug":"jammu-to-have-wi-fi-hotspots-vertical-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30609","title":{"rendered":"Jammu to have Wi-Fi hotspots, vertical gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11684622_Jammu-to-have-Wi-Fi-hotspots--vertical-gardens.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jammu<\/strong>: Wi-Fi hotspots, vertical gardens and wayfinding signages will soon come up in Jammu as part of the measures to make it a smart city, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They said Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu has laid the e-foundation of four projects under Jammu smart city mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In the first phase, there will be a smart vertical garden from below the flyover from Dogra Chowk to KC Chowk at a project cost of Rs 4.5 crore and junction improvement in 10 significant rotaries and crossings in Jammu city at a project cost of Rs 16.25 crore&#8221;, an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said Jammu will have eight Wi-Fi hotspots within the municipal corporation limits and wayfinding signages conforming to IRC standards will be installed at 680 locations in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a bid to develop Jammu as a smart city, the LG called for the removal of encroachments from markets, public places, and roads on mission mode, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lieutenant governor also sought details about the maintenance of parks and gardens in the city and issued directions for their proper fencing and beautification, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murmu was informed that the administration has undertaken a variety of works and completed sanitation drives and face lifting of Yatri Niwas and Canal Road ,including the flyover at Bikram Chowk, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 1,200 plants are being planted in different wards of the city under mega plantation drive and a campaign has been launched to remove unauthorized hoardings in the city, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New way-finding signages would be installed across the city in a time-bound manner for convenience of commuters, citizens, and tourists under the Smart City Mission, the officer added.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Jammu: Wi-Fi hotspots, vertical gardens and wayfinding signages will soon come up in Jammu as part of the measures to make it a smart city, officials said on Thursday. They said Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu has laid the e-foundation of four projects under Jammu smart city mission. &#8220;In the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}