The Bhopal Healthy City Program is the country’s one-of-a-kind initiative—it's a community-powered catalyst set to redefine public health, urban living, and social welfare in our cherished city of Bhopal.
Why zero in on Bhopal as a Healthy City?
The landscape of this vibrant urban locale is marked by distinct challenges—whether it's addressing population growth, mitigating healthcare disparities, or promoting ecological sustainability. With an eye on these nuanced issues, we've rolled out this pivotal program.
The beautiful city of Bhopal is the capital city of Madhya Pradesh and located in the heart of the state. Bhopal is the second most populous city and the largest city in Madhya Pradesh by area.
Bhoapl has been selected as one of the 100 cities to be developed in the “Smart City” initiative.
The Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Madhya Pradesh is keen to demonstrate that it is possible for cities to deliver “Health for All” by coordinating inputs from the different sectors that impact health and thus was chosen to be modeled as a “healthy city”.
The Bhopal Healthy City Program is thus our country’s one-of-a-kind initiative—it's a community-powered catalyst set to redefine public health, urban living, and social welfare in our cherished city of Bhopal.
On September 2021, NITI Aayog launched a report on measures to ramp up urban planning capacity in India titled “Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity”
Among other things, the report shared that India is home to 11% of the total global urban population. It further noted that unplanned urbanization, however, exerts great strain on our cities and mentioned how the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the dire need for the planning and management of our cities.
The report makes several recommendations that can unblock bottlenecks in the value chain of urban planning capacity in India. One of their inspiring recommendation has been:
Programmatic Intervention for Planning of Healthy Cities: Every city must aspire to become a ‘Healthy City for All’ by 2030. The report recommends a Central Sector Scheme ‘500 Healthy Cities Programme’, for a period of 5 years, wherein priority cities and towns would be selected jointly by the states and local bodies.
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