Do we really need Smart Cities?

I think we need smart cities for ourselves and for show off. Everyone wants to live in a better city with good infrastructures, good technology and pollution less environment. And if we have our own smart cities, our people don't have to go to other countries to live in a better place, So it also prevents brain drain.

And I said for show off. Yeah, To be honest, even I don't like saying this, but image of India in front of foreigners is not good. Even though we have good cities like navi Mumbai, when you say mumbai to a foreigner, what comes to their mind is slumdog millionaire's Mumbai, not the Navi Mumbai. And it also not possible to make a already existing cities much smart, so we should go for the new ones.

When our Prime minister talked about the smart cities 2 year back, I saw a lot about these smart cities in TV channels. They were showing some imaginary cities of complete automation. But actually we can't develop such smart cities.

So if anyone opposes this smart city concept, the main reason they give is why spending that much money on cities, where many people are struggling for daily food or when there our country is lacking basic infrastructures itself in many places. What I would say is, if you think smart cities, where government alone builds building and all, yea, it requires huge money and it won't succeed.

But according to me, how the smart cities should be build is, the government should acquire the required land, and it should plan the city, like how the roads should be, how broad they should be, where the buildings should be, where the hospitals should be. The government should provide good roads, drainage and all other facilities. And it should make telecom companies to provide very good network here.

But building all other things should be left to private sector. It should make people buy that land for some money and it should keep rules like the minimum number of floors should be 40 or 50. By doing this, the government won't lose anything, But it creates lot of benefits like it provides employment opportunities to many people. It should also make rules for keeping the environment clean and healthy.

And some people are saying it will be a discrimination if we make only certain cities smart, but I don't think so. Already all cities are not equally developed, and along with building smart cities, a equal importance should be given for the development of other cities and rural areas.

Yes, I think we all need smart cities to live.

Smart cities provide us with proper education, infrastructure, administration, Health services, most important security and all that one need to live a good life.

Smart cities not only considers good human life but also takes into animals into consideration (that is cities that doesn't harm animals in any way). In that way, they also provide us a good environment as well.

First of all, I'll like to clarify what actually a smart city means. Building a smart city does not only mean the construction of hospitals, schools, better transportation, better management system etc.

It also means using advanced technologies to govern all the above-stated amenities. It involves the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to make a direct communication between the government and the citizens.

As cities do already have many hospitals, educational institutions, roads etc. The task is to maintain them so that they can benefit the citizens in a more reasonable way.

And that can be achieved by transforming cities into smart cities.

Smart cities in India is just like making-of the castle in air. India is the 6th economy in the world but stands at 122nd at per capita gdp. The population is major obstacles in the path of smart cities. I past years, the government declared the name of 100 smart cities that would be built in the future. But the whole concept failed as a huge amount of money required for this task.

Illiteracy is another region which will never allow making any city as smart, the live example is the new smart train in which the headphone is theft, such type of many examples is present in India.

Before making the city smart, people should be smart.

Hello everyone.

Smart cities do require smart ideas and smart techniques. People who study in India has to do their jobs in India and should expose their talents here itself. So that we can implement innovative technologies and try to move towards smart. What our government doing is letting the great talents of India to expose their talents in foreign countries and finding success over there. By doing this so how can our country become smart? so I wish our government should not allow the people to move away from the country where they study.

Thank you.

Smart cities are important for today's world. Due to the development of our country, it provide lack of opportunities for the person. The smart city makes a person very favourable to there resources. If the region is smart city the person is more beneficial. Due to comparison with villages people ready to shift there family to smart cities because of lack of resources in there regions. We have to try "India become as smart India".

Good morning. According to my point of view, a status of country depends not only on the cities but also on the village equally. Only making of smart cities are not enough to develop a country rather development of education, health, communication etc in rural area also play a vital role. So we have to develop cities as well as village also. If cities become smart then what happen if the people are not smart enough to use the service. So we have to look after of the people who are not smart enough to use the smart facilities. As we know in our country lot of people are illiterate, we have to educate them. However making of smart cities is a first step of going to a zone of developed country. For smart cities smart people are essential that should be our primary focus.

In my opinion, we definitely need smart cities. Our government is already planning to turn many of the small cities into smart cities in the coming years which will a great initiative for our country as a whole. When we talk about smart cities, it is not just the attractive infrastructure, but a "smart city" actually refers to a city that makes the life of its people easy and good by means of better transportation, education, health and housing networks. But the major point here is that along with the good planning, our government should be able to provide good governance to execute the plans and achieve the desired goals. Smart cities will create more job opportunities which will relax the current unemployment problem in our country. Our country has manpower but fewer job opportunities for the people. Take an example of many engineering students who are either unemployed or are getting highly underpaid jobs, despite the hard work they put into their education.

Definitely, it is important to focus on the villages too, but the process will be gradual. The current small number of smart cities in our country are facing the problem of over-crowding and hence pollution rise. According to me as more cities will be turned into smart cities, the situation will be better.

Smart city will contribute towards economic development of the country and hence will enable the government to do more for the people below poverty line.

Apart from a better standard of living, a smart city gives good exposure to the people and hence can contribute in making people smart. Smarter the people, smarter and more developed the nation!

Hey guys,

We all knew that India is a developing country so in order to give an extra boost to such tittle, the smart cities are very much needed. Smart city will give good infrastructure facility to the city which may induce in good transportation, good communication and even provides employment opportunities. It also grabs international business players to set up their business in our country.

Hi friends,

Definitely, we need smart cities because it will be going to improve our nation. To make country smart firstly we should concentrate on education. Education is more important in both cities as well as villages. Everyone should get an education. Then only we can make our nation smart.