Do we really need Smart Cities?

Yes, in my opinion we really need Smart cities 1st start from us then start from small rural area villages, develop over education system if peoples are educated then they self start to cooperate maintain Smart city. Cleanses is also a very important point because pollution Causes diseases. 24hrs electricity, water supply etc these are the basic need of people govt work on it.

Hello everyone,

I agree majorities opinion, In my perspective, smart cities are very much beneficial to a country like India but, we have to consider the other side too there are many people who are all still failed to meet their basic needs. We have to at least ensure that no-one in our country is suffering from hunger. Developing one side to the highest by leaving the other side to the dark is not at all fine in my view. After eradicating poverty we can implement our dream smart city and that will be actually benefiting.

The idea of smart city sounds and appears to be whimsical. First and foremost we all need to be on the same page about our country's economic status, wealth distribution, and sustainability. We keep telling and hearing that India is a developing country and it is developing since as long as anyone can remember, here we need a pragmatic approach. We should first concentrate on rural areas that are long due to development, we literally have villages that even today have no access to electricity and has little access to water. Such stats resembles our incompetency to do what should have been done decades ago. And yet here we are talking about building smart cities and bullet trains. Our primary focus needs to be on these pressing matters rather than chasing unrealistic goals.

I mean sure smart city comes with boundless benefits, but it benefits only the elites and the people working for elites.

Hi everyone,

I do agree we should develop our village first but providing water power 24/7 will solve the problem. We are a nation with max youth. The biggest challenge now is how we are using our resources. So it's very important to create awareness of the effective use of time.

I strongly agree we need smart cities which has all the specialities and smart ppl with smart works innovations etc which should be role model for surrounding villages to improve.

Above things happen only when we choose a right candidate for election. " It's all in our hand ".

Yes,

We need smart city because our country is a developing country and we have to do a developed country and not only develop city's as a smart cities develop villages also because in villages there is no proper electricity, education, water, communication 1st of all improve rural areas afterwards automatically we get smarter cities and in our country there is a black money when that black money came out then our country will be a developed country.

Thank you.

Smart cities does not mean cities adopting technologies to solve problems but fulfilling requirements of people and progressing positively.

As per my opinion, a country or a nation is really called developed in that scenario that particular country is able to fill every stomach of a citizen including rich and poor providing them peaceful lives that's is what we call a smart and efficient county not only a city entire country called as a smart country.

We don't need 'smart cities' but every corner of India to be smart.

Meaning of a smart city: making a city self-sufficient, providing world-class cities- having a good education system, good sanitation, environmentally sustainable, best infrastructure.

But my question is why few cities? Won't it lead to discrimination between different cities? If we are going to make certain cities smart. People from other cities will be attracted to these and leave their hometowns which lack behind in providing them facilities for their overall development. It will again repeat the scenario of urbanization-and create the problem of overcrowding.

WHY LEAVE BEHIND OTHER CITIES? If we pay tax in an equal amount as the people living in smart cities, don\'t we have the equal right of development? Why the people of rural areas, 'unsmart cities' shouldn't have equal access to the best infrastructure, environmentally sustainable towns where they live? Why do they have to move out of their homes to go to a smart city? Why shouldn't they have unpolluted homes?

Even sociologically, this is discrimination: if some cities will be smart where people will have world-class infrastructure, everything is connected to the network, there origins a mental approach that the people who live in normal cities- are backward, because they have not experienced what the people of smart cities were made entitled to. This furthers the problem of urban and rural lifestyle.

No nation can survive without agriculture which exists in rural areas. Then if a farmer who is responsible for providing food to the country doesn't have access to the same facilities which the people of smart cities have, isn't it discrimination? Why does he have to send his children to smart cities? Why can't his child grow in the same rural area and have access to the smart facilities?

If I live in a small town of Rajasthan but still pay an equal amount of tax as any other person living in Shillong/Dharamshala, why don\'t I have the right to have equal facilities as the people living there?

The govt is responsible for promoting equality in services and opportunities to me also.

The real answer to our problems is that govt and citizens should work cooperatively and there should be an overall development of the nation and not few cities. And if the argument is that we have to start from somewhere, I will still emphasize that this is not a good policy decision to move ahead by starting with few cities. The approach towards development should not coincide with urbanization. India does not need to follow a western model to develop. We can have our own indigenous model of governance and development. India being an agrarian country should try to work its way towards sustainable development by investing heavily in rural areas and make them smart. If we try to take a step back and go by a bottom-top approach, we can show the world that India is a 'smart country' who makes its own way.

In my point of view, Yes we really need smart cities like other but to make city smart first people need to be smart enough.

Take for example Delhi.

Delhi is becoming smart city day by day but what about crime it is increasing rapidly due to this the image go down so this affects the people mentality about the city so that's the reason Delhi is not becoming smart. So, first people need to smart and automatically city will become smart.

Yes, really the every Indians have a dream of their own for bringing their country one of best among the world.

Smart cities are needed for the development of the societies but in meanwhile the development project is giving importance only to the well developed cities. As our national father has said that that without village India won't survive so my point developing the villages for the practicing of agriculture is more important than creating smart cities. Since smart city is needed but villages and agriculture is essential for our country.