Smart City Projects in India

BENGALURU: You may be living in big cities, metropolitan cities; but do you know how it would be to live in a Smart city? Recently, Government has set out plans to make 100 Indian cities ‘Smart’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already designed plans to make Indian cities smart in a term of 7 years. He describes that these cities will be no less to any European city in terms of quality of living. Quality of life here points to better and equal access for water, electricity, affordable homes, education and health services, and IT connectivity.

The list of spotlighted cities is recently appended with Agartala (Tripura), Bhagalpur (Bihar), Chandigarh (Punjab/Haryana), Dharamshala (Himachal), Faridabad (Haryana), Imphal (Manipur), Lucknow (UP), New Town Kolkata (West Bengal), Panaji (Goa), Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Ranchi (Jharkhand), and Warangal (Telengana).

Smart cities will have a shot at efficiently using technology, information, and data to improve infrastructure and services. As part of this venture, major part of government services will be offered online, especially on mobile, making it affordable and transparent for the public. Also, people can give their feedback on e-groups which in turn increases the public participation in administration and governance.

Further, citizens can have increased access to public transport, smart parking, intelligent traffic management, and also multi-modal transport for better mobility in the city. The surroundings will be maintained in such a way that they are pedestrian/cyclist friendly. Slums will be renovated and developed to accommodate growing population. Care will be taken to keep the neighborhood disaster-immune.

The heat effects will be attempted to remediate by building and managing open spaces like parks, playgrounds and recreational spaces. When it comes to the most important aspect of security, any kind of criminal activities will be suppressed by installing Video surveillance systems in the public places, roads to protect general public.

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