Bengaluru Smart City Limited to go Green way, signs MoU with CII’s- Indian Green Building Council
Bengaluru: As a part of MUNICIPALIKA 2020, Bengaluru Smart City Limited and CII’s- Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) on Friday, February 14, signed an MoU for giving a boost to the Green Building Movement & Sustainable Development in the city of Bengaluru and to facilitate Greening of the City as per IGBC’s Green Cities (Existing) Rating System.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in a special session during the Municipalika 2020, which had many leaders from Government, Smart City Councils, Municipal Corporations, Architects, Industry, media and academia present.
Hephsiba Rani Korlapati, IAS, Managing Director, Bengaluru Smart City Limited; V Suresh, Chairman, IGBC and Syed Mohamed Beary, Chairman, IGBC Bengaluru Chapter exchanged the MoU in the august presence of Kunal Kumar, IAS, Joint Secretary & Mission Director (Smart Cities Mission), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India.
IGBC with the support of all the stakeholders has launched an exclusive Green Cities Rating System for Existing Cities that will not only optimizes resources but will also facilitate in enhancing the quality, health & wellbeing of the occupants. IGBC Green Cities Rating System will also facilitate in better land use; increase in ground water table; increase in the city landscape cover; better parking management strategies; enhanced waste management practices, etc., As part of the MoU, Bengaluru Smart City Limited and IGBC will work together in the areas of feasibility studies, skill development, awareness & outreach programmes.
Expressing delight over the MoU, V Suresh, Chairman, IGBC said that this MoU will go a long way in setting new global benchmarks in resource conservation, energy and environmental management and in the process facilitate India consolidate its leadership position in the global green buildings map. IGBC will work closely team with team Bengaluru Smart City Limited in facilitating build a Smarter, Greener and a Healthier city, he underlined.
Syed Mohamed Beary, Chairman, IGBC Bengaluru Chapter highlighted that, IGBC aspires that the place we live, work, study, play and all other forms of built environment should go the green way. A major leap towards direction is the signing of MoU with Bengaluru Smart City Limited, he added.
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England sticking with Key, McCullum and Stokes despite Ashes humbling
London (AP): England is not sacking anybody following the 4-1 Ashes loss in Australia.
A review of the tour by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced within hours of the final match in January, was concluded on Monday. Firing people would “be the easy thing to do,” ECB chief executive Richard Gould said but he insisted, "This is not the time to throw everything out."
Managing director Rob Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes kept their jobs after the best England side to go to Australia in 14 years lost the Ashes in 11 days with two games to spare.
“Moving people on can sometimes be the easy thing to do. That's not the route that we're going to take,” Gould said. “I've seen the driving ambition and determination that we're lucky enough to have within our leadership group to take the lessons from the Ashes and move forward.”
Gould previously was the chief executive of Bristol City soccer club and said the ECB would not follow the same route as soccer's hire-and-fire culture.
“Cricket is a very unique sport in that it takes a team of leadership ... it's not like football where there's a single point of failure or success with a manager," he said. He added the ECB would not “select or deselect management based on a popularity campaign.”
The main criticisms of England's tour were poor preparation, player misbehavior, and selection mistakes.
At a press conference at Lord's, Gould and Key said McCullum and Stokes have not had a “bust up,” they did not want McCullum to “completely change” but “to evolve,” the behavior of some players was “unprofessional,” there will be more consequences for underperforming, and a commitment to “better long-term planning” ahead of major test series.
Some changes were already implemented for the Twenty20 World Cup, where England reached the semifinals. Gould implied that performance saved McCullum.
Key acknowledged that England supporters would be disappointed to see the management team go unpunished.
“I know people want punishment and that people then should be sacked for that,” Key said. “That doesn't mean we don't feel like we've gone through some serious pain: Brendon, myself, Ben. It's been as tough a time as I think I've had.”
