Do we really need Smart Cities?

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I am glad to start a discussion of our group discussion topic from me. Do we really need smart cities? Yes, I heard that India is a developing country since primary school.

So, it is a good step toward a developed country.

Because of smart cities proper planning of zones like residential, industrial so people will live without polluted and silent area. Proper utilization of water and good sewage management.

Hi everyone,

We don't need any smart cities till, we haven't smart brain. Because in our country there is crime rate day by day increasing. We can't stop on child abusing, rape, murdered, chain snatching etc. Then how can we make smart city. If we talk about India, so there is no. Of issues related with women.

In my opinion, smart cities can only be developed when people are smart and adopt smart ways to do their things. Smart cities mean 24*7 high-speed internet, 24*7 hospital causalities treatment, etc. Till today, people are throwing waste here and there on the ground. So, dustbin should be installed all over the city. Children should also have proper education. Smart cities means increase in employment. Our country can only develop when each person is employed in one or the other sectors of work. When each person is educated, is independent and adopts smart ways to do the work, our country will develop. Yes, we need smart cities and it is a slow process.

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My name is Shital.

As per my view, a smart city is a place where we have the basic amenities along with advanced technology. So developing the agricultural and industrial areas along with the appropriate knowledge for the same with the mass who are involved with it will make the place a smart city as they will know how to utilise their domain to get the best for all. If our base i.e. the mass is educated and given appropriate technology then the place it will be used for will become smart and smartness should never be restricted only in cities but this will make it spread across the globe.

The discussion that India needs smart cities or not takes us back to the decades when we were not free. British tried making us smart, though it was a failure, their failure or ours, thats our concern. From infrastructure to their builders, education to the students pursuing it, Indian police to their police men, politics to the politicians. Country to their countrymen. Its the cooperation that makes a city smart, afterall its the people who make CITY a CITY. Otherwise a zoo with an elegant infrastructure rendered beautiful by the builders of good times could have been a city. But whatever the extent of magnificence of a zoo be. We never calI it a city. I guess people should be smart, be it by the name of smart cities or just ordinary cities.

Indian government has done much in making Indain people smart. And surely still going to do the same for next million years to come. We do need smart people and thus smart cities. India is going to be great again.

I don't need the smart cities because some people are educated, some people are uneducated, Educated people easily understand the rules, but uneducated peoples can't. So smart cities are over rules.

First we do the green cities and then we think about the smart cities.

Good morning everyone,

According to me, we need smart cities because of day by day technology increases, new things were invented so to cope up with this we need smart cities but with this, we also need smart government. Smart cities not only about multi storage, buildings good infrastructure but it is also about to provide safety like providing safety (eg-cc tv and connect it to cloud (internet) so that if anyone in problem action can take quickly) it will also increase tourism in India which will increase Indian economy. We also need smart cities to connect small cities.

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According to the definition, smart cities are the cities which are refurbished and or developed by the urban development ministry of India in order to increase the quality of living, More opportunities for businesses, good health, sanitation and infrastructure for all.

Recently there have been 100 shortlisted cities under this scheme of government which are funded by the state as well as union governments and monitored by Union Ministry of urban development.

These projects are funded either by the way of Private-public partnerships or other means.

A smart city is the one which has all the basic amenities like good infra, Proper hospitals, Education for all, transportation and other sustainable management systems.

In India, smart cities are need of the hour so as to create employment opportunities and to develop tourism.

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.

It's true that smart cities will provide better infrastructure, services to citizens. But it will be in vain if people are not smart enough to use them properly. Under the current situation, not everyone of us knows how to use available services properly. So it is essential to make people smart first. In my opinion, smart people make a city smart but the converse is hardly true.