Patna: A Spain-based firm, selected as project consultant for the Smart City project, will start working from December-end, PMC commissioner Abhishek Singh said on Saturday.

Forty-three experts from Spain's Eptisa Servicious de Ingenieria SL will be engaged. "Some projects we have asked them to initiate are covering of Mandiri drain, installation of solar roof on government buildings, 3D wall painting, segregated command and control centre," Abhishek said.

There will be three teams from Spain: Task 1, Task 2 and Task 3.

Task 1 will be an input-based team. They will physically be present here and chart out the whole project. Designing and DPR and tendering work will be looked after by Task 2 while Task 3 will look after implementation and monitoring of the projects.

According to PMC sources, selection of the Spain-based company for the Mission Smart City project is an achievement for the city in the sense that the Spain-based firm has reach in over 45 countries and works with around 1,800 professionals.

"From carrying out preliminary day-to-day work of documentation and further uploading it and creating the detailed project report and design, everything has to be done by the Spain-based company," said a source in the PMC.

"The project management consultant also has to float a tender to select firms to get various works done under Smart City project. Implementation and monitoring part has also to be looked after by the consultant. Providing time-to-time progress report of the various works being carried out under Smart City Project to the municipal corporation would also be part of the consultant's job," a PMC source said.

Various projects planned under the Mission Smart City would incur an expenditure of Rs 2, 276.16 crore. While the Centre and state government would contribute Rs 500 crore each, the remaining amount would come through public-private partnership, ongoing central and state projects and corporate social responsibility.

The team will include a team leader-cum-management specialist, infrastructure specialist, project performance and management specialist among others. There would also be knowledge management specialist, urban designer, construction manager, riverfront development architect/landscape architect among others in the Spain-based firm's team.