Do we really need Smart Cities?

Yes, for the developing countries like India we need smart cities. This will increase the tourism in the cities which are declared as a smart city.

Yes, ofcourse we need smart cities.

- For smart cities, we need smart people in our country. No doubt we have hard worked as well as smart people in our nation.

- But some people of our country still do not have that mindset. The thinking of people has not changed.

- One side we are developing so much in the field of technologies like recently we have launched 104 satellites which have made a world record and on the other side, India is facing problems such as mass molestation, rapes, murders, etc which shows that people are so narrow-minded.

- For smart cities first people of our country needs to be educated, we should be aware of our rights and duties as a citizen of this nation.

But the government has taken a huge step for smart cities. 109 cities are selected in the smart city project. Also, a smart city project (SBUT) in Mumbai city is being developed.

So our country is slowly but steadily developing in these sectors also but as long as the citizens of the country don't change there is no use of all this as people don't value such things.

Yes, we really need smart cities in our country. Everyone wants smart cities. If every person does the initiative to do the city clean and smart it will very much good. I want to say that we all shout support the government to being city smart and clean.

Yes, we really need smart cities in developing country like India, smart cities are the cities which have proper standard of living, where educated people live, where the people are aware of happenings and have facilities of proper clothing, shelter and housing. There should be a large no. Of smart cities which will not only bring the development in country but also in people's mind and develop them as a person. If we compare the smart cities with the undeveloped areas we would know how they live and what is the difference and soon that gaps should be filled. India with the highly populated country have capable people who can bring our nation towards development but the only difference is an opportunity and lack of education and development in our nation so this is the core problem then only more smart cities are possible.

Hello, everyone.

In today's world, we really need smart cities. A city can be considered "smart" if the investments are made in that particular city in various sectors like infrastructure, industries by the participatory govt.

The status of smart city - reduces public spending, increases efficiency and quality of services, promotes innovation, instant information, e-governance, education and health care, energy efficiencies.

So, who will prefer to loose such facilities? we also don't prefer to loose such facilities. Hence we really need smart cities.

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Good afternoon everybody, our GD topic is Do we really need Smart Cities?

Now Smart Cities these words evoke an imagination of a city in our mind which has high rises, glass buildings with great architecture, intelligent public utilities, less congestion and pollution etc. But before moving to that bright imagination we first need to keep in mind that cities are built for people. Every product or good, ex: a public bus, when its made it remains cleans it looks sharp, all nice. But after a few months the same thing when stained with pan-parag or gutkha. It does not look very smart. So before venturing out to build a smart city, the govt should concentrate on making the people smart by enforcing proper education from a very beginner level and also it should educate the public via mass awareness. Only then we can protect our cities our culture and thus we can live smartly.

The concept of the smart city should rise from within the people who will be using it. Without it, a smart city will also look pale and lame full of half wits.

As per my view, smart cities really need when the people are aware of all new things occur in the country because of a lot of people don't know the what is technology and what is smart cities it is of lack of education in all areas.

No, we don't. We can keep all our inventions and discoveries in big science parks, museums and land but we don't actually need them in our daily lives. They spoil the natural things gifted by God. We begin to forget about nature and run behind our Wants not Needs. And definitely, these things are not needed. We become selfish and do this because we want an easy life and become couch potatoes but we don't think about the plants and animals around us. Love in natural environment you will never get bored and will be disease free no need for wasting money on curing diseases. We need to take things sadly. We need to get our country on the path of development but also should be able to reserve what we cannot get again and again.

If we want India to become developed country then we need to develop smart city. India citizens also deserve for smart city.

It's not right to link smart city with high rise buildings. In my opinion, a city should be termed smart city if it possess some salient features of smart city like proper sewerage and drainage system, proper town planning, proper space for playground, parks and basic amnesties required for daily life. And hence every city should be smart city and it is very much relevant.