mangaluru the mangaluru smart city limited mscl decided to examine the suggestions of a team of students from welsh school of architecture wsa cardiff university and school of planning and architecture new delhi with regard to developing mangaluru into a sustainable and more livable citystudents who were in the city between november 2018 and january 2019 to carry out the research submitted a book containing suggestions and possibilities of converting mangaluru into a smart city to mscl at a programme on tuesdaymscl managing director snehal r said the suggestions of students will be considered after studying it the team has prepared the report after carrying out a detailed study and explored possibilities of developing mangaluru into a more livable and sustainable city i will study it and see how it can be utilised while planning projects she saidin his keynote address dr shibu raman of wsa said various methodologies were used by the students to conduct the study we have taken 46000 pictures and used gps and drone cameras to conduct the survey meanwhile a standard questionnaire has been used while interacting with people students have interviewed experts from industries fishing community tile factories medical field and real estate the data collected through the studies have been used to formulate a vision for mangaluru he saidin his inaugural speech mangaluru city south mla d vedavyas kamath said some of the observations and suggestions made by the team will help the mscl authorities to implement major projects under the smart city scheme students have done a wonderful job by preparing a report on mangaluru city and given good suggestions their suggestions may be incorporated while implementing smart city projects it requires a joint effort by officials to implement projects he added