Uploaded on 2017-07-09 by Prajakta Chaudhari

Reference: Aurangabad City, State of Maharashtra, India Important stock and flows that been identified in the City of Aurangabad are: 1. People – a. Immigrants for work and education – relatively long stay – I belong to this category b. Visitors for cultural events – typically 2 / 5 days’ stay c. Visitors for business – typically 1 day’s stay d. Tourists – typically 1.5 days’ stay 2. Material for Construction 3. Raw Material for Industry 4. Water 5. Energy – Power, LPG 6. Food 7. Finances 8. Transportation – Private taxis (OLA) / state-owned bus fleet, private hired vehicles (buses and cars) 9. Paithani sarees and Himroo products – traditional hand woven products that come to the City for being sold / exported 10. Land 11. Tourist facilities – earlier only monuments, now improving 12. Communication network including wifi services 13. Birds Following are the stocks and flows that I have for discussing in detail: 1. Raw Material for Industry Aurangabad is known as for its manufacturing industry; especially automotive – the city hosts the third auto-cluster set-up within the State of Maharashtra, beverages – Aurangabad City is known as the ‘Beer Capital of the State of Maharashtra’, electronics and more recently for pharmaceuticals. Raw material for production of the final product including electricity, other sources of energy like LPG, and water are imported into the City, since the City has no sources or manufacturing facilities of any of the raw materials for these industries. Water is sourced majorly from the Jaikwadi Dam which is approx. 60 kms south of the City and electricity is sourced from the State’s Grid. They are processed in the manufacturing units situated within the City. Part of the population that works in this industry is also an immigrant population. Once the products are manufactured, they leave the City in form of finished product for being shipped to various parts of the Country. 2. Tourists – People visiting the City for leisure Aurangabad City is known as the ‘Tourism Capital of the State of Maharashtra’. The City is home to two monuments; Bibi-ka-Maqbara (also famous as Mini Taj Mahal) and Panchakki (water powered flour mill that is considered to be 17th century engineering marvel), under the care of Archaeological Society of India and serves as gateway to the famous UNSECO world heritage Buddhist Caves of Ajanta and Ellora. The City is also famous as the ‘City of Gates’ – 52 gates that were built during the Mughal era in 17th century and each with its own chronicle. Further, the City is a gateway to a renowned religious place Shirdi – of the 6 flights that come in and go out of the airport, one flight flies specifically from Hyderabad City for flying pilgrims who want to visit Shirdi along with Tirupati. Apart from these attractions; including temples and mosques, the City has a few more tourist spots that the visiting tourists visit on-and-off. As per a study of Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, tourists (people) typically spend only 1.5 days in the City and visit the City majorly during the months from October to June every year – this is a major flow of people in and out of the City. 3. Transportation – Private taxis (OLA) / state-owned bus fleet, private hired vehicles (buses and cars) Since Tourism is a major and one of the oldest industry in the City of Aurangabad, the ancillary industry of transportation services also happens to be a major industry in the City. Private taxis (OLA) / state-owned bus fleet, and private hired vehicles (buses and cars) generally come into the City from fringe areas, operate the complete day and leave the City at the end of the day – majority tour and travel operators operate with contracted vehicles that are owned by individuals from settlements / towns / villages in the vicinity of the City, they maintain a relatively minuscule fleet of their own. 4. Birds Salim Ali Sarovar (Lake) within the City has been identified as one of the hot biodiversity spots in the region (administrative division). Though it is not open for nature lovers to access, it hosts almost 70 species of migratory birds during the months from October to March. ## The reason I have mentioned about this stock and flow will be explained in the net section How the above identified stocks and flows can change in future for the benefit of the area: 1. Raw material for industry Since Aurangabad City is a the only major City in the administrative region, has a political significance in the region and has been historically a trade centre for over 400 years, it has appeared as part of key State and Central projects. Aurangabad is part of the ambitious State project of Mumbai – Nagpur express highway. A complete new township that will depend on the City for civic services has been planned in the south-east of the City at Shendra – Bidkin as part of the Central project of Delhi – Mumbai Industrial Corridor. Inflow and outflow of raw materials and finished products is already being planned and executed as part of State and national projects – this is expected to change the face of City; in a better way in terms of financial standing of the City and civic services in case the ULB plans and responds to the changing needs 2. I am considering the rest stocks and flows identified above for discussion in this single point: a. Tourists – People visiting the City for leisure b. Transportation – Private taxis (OLA) / state-owned bus fleet, private hired vehicles (buses and cars) c. Birds Owing to virtue of history and location of City, the City has the potential to improve on Tourism front. As part of improving visibility of Aurangabad City as a tourist destination – and as part of my project – Aurangabad Municipal Corporation has launched http://aurangabadcitytourism.com/ - It is a website with a mobile app that enable tourists to access information on City’s attractions, and get access to all stakeholders with who they can plan their travel itinerary – places to visit with timings, history and highlights, guides, tour and travel operators, restaurants, and hotels. The website also allows tourists to book tickets for tourist attractions online. As part of another project with the ULB, we are planning to implement Smart Kiosks wherein tourists may avail all these services through the Kiosk. Barring a few tourist destinations, rest of them are either in a sad shape or are not really attractive for tourists to visit – a lot of work can be put into developing these attractions that combine the beauty of the past with the novelty of the future using its inherent characteristics. This will not only increase the overall inflow and outflow of tourists (number-wise) but allow lead to a drastic increment in their stay duration (we could expect an increase from current 1.5 days to at least 3 – 5 days). Bird watching ## and religion may be added as themes to the tourism profile of the City. This will compel the ULB authorities to lift the face of the City and boost the tourism-related economy; including employment. * I have been posted to Aurangabad City for undertaken technology-led transformation of the City to make it Smart and Safe Aurangabad City. All the additional information and perspective is a result of the detailed study and survey of this city. I have tried being to the point and very focussed and mention every detail required – but in case, something is missing, it is on account of me having missed on putting in some back-ground information – in such a case, I would be more than happy to explain the point ** The language may not be apt for delivering an assignment. But I have tried my best to stick to the assignment style of writing as I am zoned through the day working on multiple deliverables of differing nature and those with an extreme formal style of writing *** I did not have any good pictures for supporting the exercise as all locations a pretty far from where I work and stay – hence I have put up a picture of the Bibi-ka-Maqubara (Mini Taj Mahal) which we clicked while I had a personal guest over for vacation