Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), Aurangabad Smart City Development Corporation Ltd (ASCDCL), and the agencies implementing geographic information system (GIS) and e-governance projects held a meeting at the AMC headquarters. During the last months, ASCDCL through the tender process has shortlisted Amnex technologies for GIS projects and Mars Telecom for e-governance projects. In the meeting, various components of projects were discussed which included the scope of work, project management plan, project roadmap, stakeholders communication plan-reporting frequency, key challenges, support requirements, risk response plan, data required from AMC, and ASCDCL, and the process for the data acquisition. Both projects will be hosted on a cloud-based data center with an industry-standard disaster recovery mechanism. Project management consultant Patil said that the support period of both projects is 10 years, and the entire system will be updated regularly. Image Source Also read: Smart Cities Mission brings together govt schemes on affordable housing Also read: Smart city: Rajasthan ranks second in India in implementing projects