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The proposal for building smart cities was mooted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 as part of ‘Mission Transform Nation’.
The announcement of 20 smart cities selected from a list of 97 for funding in the first phase is the first time investment in urban development is being made based on a competition.
The Smart City Challenge has states nominating cities through an objective and transparent competition without any central intervention.
All the cities that have not qualified are still on the list of potential smart cities, and can ‘move up’ by revisiting and revising their proposals and participating in the second round of the challenge.
Twenty cities are funded in the first phase, 40 in the second phase, and 40 more in the third, making it a total of 100. The 20 cities in the first stage will get Rs 200 crore in 2015-16 and Rs 100 crore each year for the next three years, the total amounting to Rs 500 crore. All 97 cities were given Rs 2 crore by the Centre to make their smart city plan proposals with technical assistance by national and international agencies. BJP-ruled states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Goa could not make it into the top 20. This speaks of the unbiased nature of the selection system.
The Smart City Mission marks the beginning of a ‘bottom up’ approach in urban planning. Citizen participation has been mandatory for the preparation of smart city plans for which a weightage of 16% was given while evaluating the city-level plans. A total of 15.20 million citizens have participated in the preparation of plans at various stages, accounting for about 12% of the total population of the 97 participating cities.
MyGov.in enlisted an unprecedented response from citizens and other stakeholders with 2.5 million people sharing their views and suggestions. Another 11.7 million availed of other forums like state government portals, town hall and neighbourhood meetings, and different competitions.
Citizens Become Netizens
A key element of the Smart City Mission is the use of information and communication technology to leverage citizen participation for urban planning by ensuring constant exchange of information personalised to the citizens’ needs and preferences.
The ministry, in consultation with Bloomberg Technologies, states and urban local bodies, has evolved a template with a set of 43 questions to assess smart city plans based on merit, irrespective of the size and type of the city or town. This standardised format enabled the cities and towns to express themselves fully, bringing out distinguishing and unique features of each city, which otherwise may have been missed out.
The Smart City Plans, all received by December 15, 2015, have been handed over to three teams of evaluators comprising Indian and foreign experts.
The competition was based on the implementation framework, including feasibility and cost-effectiveness, which has a weightage of 30%, followed by result orientation (20%), citizen participation (16%), smartness of proposal (10%), strategic plan (10%), vision and goals (5%), evidence-based city profiling and key performance indicators (5%), and processes followed (4%).
In these 20 smart cities, a total investment of Rs 50,802 crore has been proposed during the five-year period. Of the 20 cities, 18 have come forward with retrofitting proposals; one city with both retrofitting and redevelopment, and another to take up only redevelopment.
A total area of 26,735 acres will be taken up for improvements in these 20 cities, including redevelopment of 425 acres.
Smartly Flexible
Eleven states and the Union territory (UT) of Delhi have made it to the top 20. With Jammu & Kashmir still to decide on its choice, 23 states and UTs are still to be covered under the Smart City Mission. We are giving the top-ranking city in each of these 23 states and UTs an opportunity to upgrade their smart city proposals in a fast-track round of competition. They will be given time till April 15, 2016, to submit their upgraded proposals.
The normal Round 2 of the competition for the remaining 54 cities and towns will begin on April 1, 2016. Those who do not make the grade in fast-track competition will also join this second round.
Many cities in the proposed list of 98 smart cities also qualify for the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut), the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (Hriday) and the Housing Mission. This convergence leads to integrated development.
The mission’s implementation at the city level will be done by a special purpose vehicle (SPV) that will be formed for each of the cities, to identify all the potential partners from public and private sectors. Each SPV of a smart city will be headed by a CEO and will have nominees of the central and state governments, and of the urban local bodies on its board.
The Smart City Mission aims to provide world-class infrastructure, technology-enabled services, sustainable public transport and affordable housing in Indian cities. Nobody can stop an idea whose time has come. The smart city is such an idea.
The announcement of 20 smart cities selected from a list of 97 for funding in the first phase is the first time investment in urban development is being made based on a competition.
The Smart City Challenge has states nominating cities through an objective and transparent competition without any central intervention.
All the cities that have not qualified are still on the list of potential smart cities, and can ‘move up’ by revisiting and revising their proposals and participating in the second round of the challenge.
Twenty cities are funded in the first phase, 40 in the second phase, and 40 more in the third, making it a total of 100. The 20 cities in the first stage will get Rs 200 crore in 2015-16 and Rs 100 crore each year for the next three years, the total amounting to Rs 500 crore. All 97 cities were given Rs 2 crore by the Centre to make their smart city plan proposals with technical assistance by national and international agencies. BJP-ruled states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Goa could not make it into the top 20. This speaks of the unbiased nature of the selection system.
The Smart City Mission marks the beginning of a ‘bottom up’ approach in urban planning. Citizen participation has been mandatory for the preparation of smart city plans for which a weightage of 16% was given while evaluating the city-level plans. A total of 15.20 million citizens have participated in the preparation of plans at various stages, accounting for about 12% of the total population of the 97 participating cities.
MyGov.in enlisted an unprecedented response from citizens and other stakeholders with 2.5 million people sharing their views and suggestions. Another 11.7 million availed of other forums like state government portals, town hall and neighbourhood meetings, and different competitions.
Citizens Become Netizens
A key element of the Smart City Mission is the use of information and communication technology to leverage citizen participation for urban planning by ensuring constant exchange of information personalised to the citizens’ needs and preferences.
The ministry, in consultation with Bloomberg Technologies, states and urban local bodies, has evolved a template with a set of 43 questions to assess smart city plans based on merit, irrespective of the size and type of the city or town. This standardised format enabled the cities and towns to express themselves fully, bringing out distinguishing and unique features of each city, which otherwise may have been missed out.
The Smart City Plans, all received by December 15, 2015, have been handed over to three teams of evaluators comprising Indian and foreign experts.
The competition was based on the implementation framework, including feasibility and cost-effectiveness, which has a weightage of 30%, followed by result orientation (20%), citizen participation (16%), smartness of proposal (10%), strategic plan (10%), vision and goals (5%), evidence-based city profiling and key performance indicators (5%), and processes followed (4%).
In these 20 smart cities, a total investment of Rs 50,802 crore has been proposed during the five-year period. Of the 20 cities, 18 have come forward with retrofitting proposals; one city with both retrofitting and redevelopment, and another to take up only redevelopment.
A total area of 26,735 acres will be taken up for improvements in these 20 cities, including redevelopment of 425 acres.
Smartly Flexible
Eleven states and the Union territory (UT) of Delhi have made it to the top 20. With Jammu & Kashmir still to decide on its choice, 23 states and UTs are still to be covered under the Smart City Mission. We are giving the top-ranking city in each of these 23 states and UTs an opportunity to upgrade their smart city proposals in a fast-track round of competition. They will be given time till April 15, 2016, to submit their upgraded proposals.
The normal Round 2 of the competition for the remaining 54 cities and towns will begin on April 1, 2016. Those who do not make the grade in fast-track competition will also join this second round.
Many cities in the proposed list of 98 smart cities also qualify for the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut), the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (Hriday) and the Housing Mission. This convergence leads to integrated development.
The mission’s implementation at the city level will be done by a special purpose vehicle (SPV) that will be formed for each of the cities, to identify all the potential partners from public and private sectors. Each SPV of a smart city will be headed by a CEO and will have nominees of the central and state governments, and of the urban local bodies on its board.
The Smart City Mission aims to provide world-class infrastructure, technology-enabled services, sustainable public transport and affordable housing in Indian cities. Nobody can stop an idea whose time has come. The smart city is such an idea.
Smart City Challenge has kick-started a revolution in urban landscape
The proposal for building smart cities was mooted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 as part of ‘Mission Transform Nation’.
The announcement of 20 smart cities selected from a list of 97 for funding in the first phase is the first time investment in urban development is being made based on a competition.
The Smart City Challenge has states nominating cities through an objective and transparent competition without any central intervention.
All the cities that have not qualified are still on the list of potential smart cities, and can ‘move up’ by revisiting and revising their proposals and participating in the second round of the challenge.
Twenty cities are funded in the first phase, 40 in the second phase, and 40 more in the third, making it a total of 100. The 20 cities in the first stage will get Rs 200 crore in 2015-16 and Rs 100 crore each year for the next three years, the total amounting to Rs 500 crore. All 97 cities were given Rs 2 crore by the Centre to make their smart city plan proposals with technical assistance by national and international agencies. BJP-ruled states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Goa could not make it into the top 20. This speaks of the unbiased nature of the selection system.
The Smart City Mission marks the beginning of a ‘bottom up’ approach in urban planning. Citizen participation has been mandatory for the preparation of smart city plans for which a weightage of 16% was given while evaluating the city-level plans. A total of 15.20 million citizens have participated in the preparation of plans at various stages, accounting for about 12% of the total population of the 97 participating cities.
MyGov.in enlisted an unprecedented response from citizens and other stakeholders with 2.5 million people sharing their views and suggestions. Another 11.7 million availed of other forums like state government portals, town hall and neighbourhood meetings, and different competitions.
Citizens Become Netizens
A key element of the Smart City Mission is the use of information and communication technology to leverage citizen participation for urban planning by ensuring constant exchange of information personalised to the citizens’ needs and preferences.
The ministry, in consultation with Bloomberg Technologies, states and urban local bodies, has evolved a template with a set of 43 questions to assess smart city plans based on merit, irrespective of the size and type of the city or town. This standardised format enabled the cities and towns to express themselves fully, bringing out distinguishing and unique features of each city, which otherwise may have been missed out.
The Smart City Plans, all received by December 15, 2015, have been handed over to three teams of evaluators comprising Indian and foreign experts.
The competition was based on the implementation framework, including feasibility and cost-effectiveness, which has a weight age of 30%, followed by result orientation (20%), citizen participation (16%), smartness of proposal (10%), strategic plan (10%), vision and goals (5%), evidence-based city profiling and key performance indicators (5%), and processes followed (4%).
In these 20 smart cities, a total investment of Rs 50,802 crore has been proposed during the five-year period. Of the 20 cities, 18 have come forward with retrofitting proposals; one city with both retrofitting and redevelopment, and another to take up only redevelopment.
A total area of 26,735 acres will be taken up for improvements in these 20 cities, including redevelopment of 425 acres.
Smartly Flexible
Eleven states and the Union territory (UT) of Delhi have made it to the top 20. With Jammu & Kashmir still to decide on its choice, 23 states and UTs are still to be covered under the Smart City Mission. We are giving the top-ranking city in each of these 23 states and UTs an opportunity to upgrade their smart city proposals in a fast-track round of competition. They will be given time till April 15, 2016, to submit their upgraded proposals.
The normal Round 2 of the competition for the remaining 54 cities and towns will begin on April 1, 2016. Those who do not make the grade in fast-track competition will also join this second round.
Many cities in the proposed list of 98 smart cities also qualify for the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut), the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (Hriday) and the Housing Mission. This convergence leads to integrated development.
The mission’s implementation at the city level will be done by a special purpose vehicle (SPV) that will be formed for each of the cities, to identify all the potential partners from public and private sectors. Each SPV of a smart city will be headed by a CEO and will have nominees of the central and state governments, and of the urban local bodies on its board.
The Smart City Mission aims to provide world-class infrastructure, technology-enabled services, sustainable public transport and affordable housing in Indian cities. Nobody can stop an idea whose time has come. The smart city is such an idea.
The announcement of 20 smart cities selected from a list of 97 for funding in the first phase is the first time investment in urban development is being made based on a competition.
The Smart City Challenge has states nominating cities through an objective and transparent competition without any central intervention.
All the cities that have not qualified are still on the list of potential smart cities, and can ‘move up’ by revisiting and revising their proposals and participating in the second round of the challenge.
Twenty cities are funded in the first phase, 40 in the second phase, and 40 more in the third, making it a total of 100. The 20 cities in the first stage will get Rs 200 crore in 2015-16 and Rs 100 crore each year for the next three years, the total amounting to Rs 500 crore. All 97 cities were given Rs 2 crore by the Centre to make their smart city plan proposals with technical assistance by national and international agencies. BJP-ruled states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Goa could not make it into the top 20. This speaks of the unbiased nature of the selection system.
The Smart City Mission marks the beginning of a ‘bottom up’ approach in urban planning. Citizen participation has been mandatory for the preparation of smart city plans for which a weightage of 16% was given while evaluating the city-level plans. A total of 15.20 million citizens have participated in the preparation of plans at various stages, accounting for about 12% of the total population of the 97 participating cities.
MyGov.in enlisted an unprecedented response from citizens and other stakeholders with 2.5 million people sharing their views and suggestions. Another 11.7 million availed of other forums like state government portals, town hall and neighbourhood meetings, and different competitions.
Citizens Become Netizens
A key element of the Smart City Mission is the use of information and communication technology to leverage citizen participation for urban planning by ensuring constant exchange of information personalised to the citizens’ needs and preferences.
The ministry, in consultation with Bloomberg Technologies, states and urban local bodies, has evolved a template with a set of 43 questions to assess smart city plans based on merit, irrespective of the size and type of the city or town. This standardised format enabled the cities and towns to express themselves fully, bringing out distinguishing and unique features of each city, which otherwise may have been missed out.
The Smart City Plans, all received by December 15, 2015, have been handed over to three teams of evaluators comprising Indian and foreign experts.
The competition was based on the implementation framework, including feasibility and cost-effectiveness, which has a weight age of 30%, followed by result orientation (20%), citizen participation (16%), smartness of proposal (10%), strategic plan (10%), vision and goals (5%), evidence-based city profiling and key performance indicators (5%), and processes followed (4%).
In these 20 smart cities, a total investment of Rs 50,802 crore has been proposed during the five-year period. Of the 20 cities, 18 have come forward with retrofitting proposals; one city with both retrofitting and redevelopment, and another to take up only redevelopment.
A total area of 26,735 acres will be taken up for improvements in these 20 cities, including redevelopment of 425 acres.
Smartly Flexible
Eleven states and the Union territory (UT) of Delhi have made it to the top 20. With Jammu & Kashmir still to decide on its choice, 23 states and UTs are still to be covered under the Smart City Mission. We are giving the top-ranking city in each of these 23 states and UTs an opportunity to upgrade their smart city proposals in a fast-track round of competition. They will be given time till April 15, 2016, to submit their upgraded proposals.
The normal Round 2 of the competition for the remaining 54 cities and towns will begin on April 1, 2016. Those who do not make the grade in fast-track competition will also join this second round.
Many cities in the proposed list of 98 smart cities also qualify for the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut), the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (Hriday) and the Housing Mission. This convergence leads to integrated development.
The mission’s implementation at the city level will be done by a special purpose vehicle (SPV) that will be formed for each of the cities, to identify all the potential partners from public and private sectors. Each SPV of a smart city will be headed by a CEO and will have nominees of the central and state governments, and of the urban local bodies on its board.
The Smart City Mission aims to provide world-class infrastructure, technology-enabled services, sustainable public transport and affordable housing in Indian cities. Nobody can stop an idea whose time has come. The smart city is such an idea.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar attacks Centre for 'ignoring' Bihar in Smart City list
Chief Minister Nitish kumar today hit out at the Centre for not selecting any city from Bihar in the the list of 20 smart cities and said the BJP-led Union government has no consideration to maintain regional balance.
The Centre had sought proposal from the state for smart city, which was provided to them as per the requirement specified, but still no city of Bihar finds place in the list announced for converting them into smart city, Kumar said.
"There is no rule or law before them...something other is going in the country these days," he said.
"There is no 'maryada' (decency), 'niyam' (rules), neither they have any consideration to maintain regional balance," Kumar, who is senior leader of JD(U) said.
"This is example of 'andher nagri' (misrule)," the Bihar CM said.
In reply to a question over the BJP mocking him for foundation-laying of six-lane bridge over Ganga tomorrow, Kumar clarified that it is an inauguration for starting the work and not a foundation laying ceremony which had already been done before poll.
Work would start on the bridge project intended to lower load over Gandhi Setu on Ganga at present after making arrangements for funding and other aspects.
Kumar said, "When they were with me, they used to insist that their name should be there on the foundation stone even in the condition of failing to turn up for the programme."
"Ramvilas Paswan had got foundation laying of the rail-cum road brige from Digha to Sonepur by the then Prime Minister H D Deva Gowd without arranging fund for it. When I was Railway minister, I got the work started on the said project by the then PM A B VAJEEPAI after allocation of fund for it," he said.
The Centre had sought proposal from the state for smart city, which was provided to them as per the requirement specified, but still no city of Bihar finds place in the list announced for converting them into smart city, Kumar said.
"There is no rule or law before them...something other is going in the country these days," he said.
"There is no 'maryada' (decency), 'niyam' (rules), neither they have any consideration to maintain regional balance," Kumar, who is senior leader of JD(U) said.
"This is example of 'andher nagri' (misrule)," the Bihar CM said.
In reply to a question over the BJP mocking him for foundation-laying of six-lane bridge over Ganga tomorrow, Kumar clarified that it is an inauguration for starting the work and not a foundation laying ceremony which had already been done before poll.
Work would start on the bridge project intended to lower load over Gandhi Setu on Ganga at present after making arrangements for funding and other aspects.
Kumar said, "When they were with me, they used to insist that their name should be there on the foundation stone even in the condition of failing to turn up for the programme."
"Ramvilas Paswan had got foundation laying of the rail-cum road brige from Digha to Sonepur by the then Prime Minister H D Deva Gowd without arranging fund for it. When I was Railway minister, I got the work started on the said project by the then PM A B VAJEEPAI after allocation of fund for it," he said.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
TOP 20 SMART CITIES OF INDIA
A smart city uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption and to improve contact between citizens and government. Sectors that have been developing smart city technology include government services, transport and traffic management, energy, health care, water, innovative urban agriculture and waste management. Smart city applications are developed with the goal of improving the management of urban flows and allowing for real time responses to challenges. A smart city may therefore be more prepared to respond to challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. Other terms that have been used for similar concepts include ‘cyberville, ‘digital city’’, ‘electronic communities’, ‘flexicity’, ‘information city’, 'intelligent city', ‘knowledge-based city, 'MESH city', ‘telecity, ‘teletopia’’, 'Ubiquitous city', ‘wired city’.
1. Bhubaneswar
2. Pune
3. Jaipur
4. Surat
5. Kochi
6. Ahmedabad
7. Jabalpur
8. Visakhapatnam
9. Solapur
10. Davengere
11. Indore
12. NDMC(New Delhi Area)
13. Coimbatore
14. Kakinada
15. Belgaum
16. Udaipur
17. Guwahati
18. Chennai
19. Ludhiana
20. Bhopal
Govt announces 20 smart cities in India
Urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday announced
the first list of 20 cities to be developed as Smart Cities, with
Bhubaneswar topping the list and Pune and Jaipur coming in second and
third respectively.
The others on the list include Surat, Kochi and Ahmedabad.
These cities will be developed to have basic infrastructure through assured water and power supply, sanitation and solid waste management, efficient urban mobility and public transport, IT connectivity, e-governance and citizen participation.
“The states selected cities and sent us a list of 97 names. There was a competition among these names and 20 cities have been selected,” Naidu told a news conference. “Bottom up approach has been the key planning principle under Smart City Mission,” he said.
“The Smart City Challenge Competition was as rigorous and demanding as the civil services competition conducted,” Naidu quipped.
These are the 20 cities named in the first list: Bhubaneswar; Pune; Jaipur; Surat; Kochi; Ahmedabad; Jabalpur; Visakhapatnam; Solapur; 10 Davanagere; Indore; New Delhi; Coimbatore; Kakinada; Belgaum; Udaipur; Guwahati; Chennai; Ludhiana; Bhopal.
In the subsequent years, the government will announce 40 cities each to be developed as smart cities as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to develop 100 smart cities in the country.
The government plans to build these smart cities by 2022 to help accommodate its swelling urban population, which is set to rise by more than 400 million people to 814 million by 2050.
The cities are competing on a variety of matrices, including urban reforms and their plan of action in four key areas -- Swachh Bharat, Make in India, good governance (modern accounting system, rationalisation of property taxes) and e-governance.
Naidu said that a total of 15.20 million (1.52 crore) citizens had participated in the preparation of the ambitious Smart City plans at various stages.
Some sent their ideas to city officials via Twitter, Facebook or SMS. Others entered local contests for designing logos or writing essays. Bhubaneswar, the capital of the eastern state of Orissa, unfurled a 10-kilometer-long canvas banner across the city and invited residents to scroll down their suggestions.
Many of the proposals mentioned a need for better transportation, sewage treatment or trash management.
The Rajasthani heritage cities of Jaipur and Udaipur, and Agra, the city of the iconic Taj Mahal, all wanted to clean up their downtown tourist areas, while people in Amritsar, best known for its Golden Temple and location near Pakistan, suggested CCTV cameras and an emergency call center to address their main concerns about safety and security.
He further said that Smart City plans will demonstrate how integrated planning and smart technologies can deliver better a quality of life.
The Centre and states will equally split the overall cost of the project estimated at Rs 96,000 crore. The central government will provide on an average Rs. 100 crore per chosen city per year. The project cost of each smart city will vary depending upon the level of ambition, model, capacity to execute and repay.
Raising funds is the key challenge as also is developing older cities with limited scope to overhaul. Heavily populated areas may need complete rebuilding which will then involve temporarily rehabilitating people and, in some cases, acquiring land.
A smart city uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption and to improve contact between citizens and government. Sectors that have been developing smart city technology include government services, transport and traffic management, energy, health care, water, innovative urban agriculture and waste management. Smart city applications are developed with the goal of improving the management of urban flows and allowing for real time responses to challenges. A smart city may therefore be more prepared to respond to challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. Other terms that have been used for similar concepts include ‘cyberville, ‘digital city’’, ‘electronic communities’, ‘flexicity’, ‘information city’, 'intelligent city', ‘knowledge-based city, 'MESH city', ‘telecity, ‘teletopia’’, 'Ubiquitous city', ‘wired city’.
These cities will be developed to have basic infrastructure through assured water and power supply, sanitation and solid waste management, efficient urban mobility and public transport, IT connectivity, e-governance and citizen participation.
“The states selected cities and sent us a list of 97 names. There was a competition among these names and 20 cities have been selected,” Naidu told a news conference. “Bottom up approach has been the key planning principle under Smart City Mission,” he said.
“The Smart City Challenge Competition was as rigorous and demanding as the civil services competition conducted,” Naidu quipped.
These are the 20 cities named in the first list: Bhubaneswar; Pune; Jaipur; Surat; Kochi; Ahmedabad; Jabalpur; Visakhapatnam; Solapur; 10 Davanagere; Indore; New Delhi; Coimbatore; Kakinada; Belgaum; Udaipur; Guwahati; Chennai; Ludhiana; Bhopal.
In the subsequent years, the government will announce 40 cities each to be developed as smart cities as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to develop 100 smart cities in the country.
The government plans to build these smart cities by 2022 to help accommodate its swelling urban population, which is set to rise by more than 400 million people to 814 million by 2050.
The cities are competing on a variety of matrices, including urban reforms and their plan of action in four key areas -- Swachh Bharat, Make in India, good governance (modern accounting system, rationalisation of property taxes) and e-governance.
Naidu said that a total of 15.20 million (1.52 crore) citizens had participated in the preparation of the ambitious Smart City plans at various stages.
Some sent their ideas to city officials via Twitter, Facebook or SMS. Others entered local contests for designing logos or writing essays. Bhubaneswar, the capital of the eastern state of Orissa, unfurled a 10-kilometer-long canvas banner across the city and invited residents to scroll down their suggestions.
Many of the proposals mentioned a need for better transportation, sewage treatment or trash management.
The Rajasthani heritage cities of Jaipur and Udaipur, and Agra, the city of the iconic Taj Mahal, all wanted to clean up their downtown tourist areas, while people in Amritsar, best known for its Golden Temple and location near Pakistan, suggested CCTV cameras and an emergency call center to address their main concerns about safety and security.
He further said that Smart City plans will demonstrate how integrated planning and smart technologies can deliver better a quality of life.
The Centre and states will equally split the overall cost of the project estimated at Rs 96,000 crore. The central government will provide on an average Rs. 100 crore per chosen city per year. The project cost of each smart city will vary depending upon the level of ambition, model, capacity to execute and repay.
Raising funds is the key challenge as also is developing older cities with limited scope to overhaul. Heavily populated areas may need complete rebuilding which will then involve temporarily rehabilitating people and, in some cases, acquiring land.
A smart city uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption and to improve contact between citizens and government. Sectors that have been developing smart city technology include government services, transport and traffic management, energy, health care, water, innovative urban agriculture and waste management. Smart city applications are developed with the goal of improving the management of urban flows and allowing for real time responses to challenges. A smart city may therefore be more prepared to respond to challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. Other terms that have been used for similar concepts include ‘cyberville, ‘digital city’’, ‘electronic communities’, ‘flexicity’, ‘information city’, 'intelligent city', ‘knowledge-based city, 'MESH city', ‘telecity, ‘teletopia’’, 'Ubiquitous city', ‘wired city’.
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