REPL consortium gets consultancy work for Varanasi smart city

Rudrabhishek Enterprises (REPL), Grant Thornton and ABN consulting have been appointed as project consultants for Varanasi smart city project.
Property and infrastructure consultant REPL said that the Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has appointed consortium of these three firms as Project Management Consultants. The agreement was signed last week in Varanasi.
"Consultants will prepare detailed project reports (DPR) on various components such as water supply and sewerage systems, intelligent traffic management, smart security system, heritage conservation, tourism promotion activities etc," REPL said in a statement.
In this Smart City project, REPL said that the Area Based Development (ABD) approach will be taken, along with the pan city solutions.

The plan, spreading over total 1,389 acres, will include retrofitting of old city along river Ganga comprising of major temples, heritage sites and cultural places.
Pradeep Misra, CMD of REPL, said, "The Varanasi Smart City is certainly going to be uniquely challenging for us. We feel absolutely privileged to be part of this project which has immense historic, cultural and heritage importance for the entire nation."

"While keeping the core essence of the city intact, we have to make the city smart, so that it becomes a model for replication," he added.
The company will leverage its experience and learning on its other Smart City consultancy works in Indore and Bhopal.

REPL consortium will assist the Varanasi Smart City Ltd in various phases of project implementation.
This will include the activities such as, preparation of DPR, coordination with various appointed consultants, project prioritisation and phasing, preparing capital investment plan, implementation roadmap, conducting feasibility study, bid process management for selection of implementing agencies and overall project management.
With its consortium partner, REPL is providing Project Management Consultancy on Smart City Indore.
In the very first list of 20 smart cities announced by the government, plan prepared by REPL consortium for Smart City Bhopal was selected.
The Centre plans to develop 100 smart city projects across the country.