Do we really need Smart Cities?

Hello friends, In my mind, smart cities means the developments of our society, living life style, economic growth etc. Mainly smart city refer to the development, construction of our school, hospitals and 24*7 electricity, the housing of all middle-class family even lower class family. Although we need smart cities but firstly we need smart peoples around us who can contribute his smartness works for our society. You know friends in our country main problem is corruption and everyone indulge in it. My words would be getting bitter but this is truth it means corruption is parts of our country identity it also only pen and paper reduce will be soon but look in the actual ground what is happening. If we want to make smart cities firstly we have to end up the corruption. It will possible then. In addition, our PM says 100 cities proceeding on smart cities but if we invest that money in countryside our India can make smart and our farmer can get benefits.

We actually need Smart Villages. It will stop migration, poverty, overpopulation, unemployment and maintain equality throughout the country indirectly.

If cities become smart. It promotes migration and as most of us knew everyone comes to city for better facilities and comfort. This makes most people selfish that ultimately makes no stable future for the country or people. Population also becomes high at certain point with scarce resources.

Yeah we definetly needs Smartcities it will be helpful in many ways I will explain that in diffrent steps.

Number one is Water management will be improved like it will be helpful in detecting quality of water, any leakage taking place, smart preventions to save it.

Number two is Mobility. In this we can easily manage traffic system, parking problems etc.

Number three is Energy. We can produce energy from new energy sources like wind mills, solar energy, heat, water etc.

Number four waste management. Waste management will become easy so wherever dustbins are full it will directly be detected from control room.

In last it will improve information and communicatin technology in urban services like in railway tickets, cab booking etc.

Information and communication technology means everything we use to communicate with the help of technology like mobile phones etc.

I'm Manoj kr. And I'd like the initiative to start the group discussion.

First, I'd like to start by telling everyone what does a smart city mean well smart cities are basically a modern form of the existing cities with better waste management system better roads with a clean environment and which also includes using solar panels and other forms of sustainable energy. So the question is do we need smart cities or not and the answer is yes because in a developing country like India smart cities would act as a boosting centres and trade centre to increase the development of the country as a whole there are plenty of villages that are directly dependent on cities for their day to day activities so making cities smart would help developing those villages so for the overall development of the country I think developing smart cities ia not a bad idea at all.

Smart cities is a very innovative and transformative initiative by the Indian Government. Smart cities envisage smart infrastructure, smart people, smart exploitation of resources. The efficient transport system, better traffic management, steps to curb pollution is the need of the hour. So, India definitely needs smart cities. But smart cities project should be accompanied by smart villages, then only India will truly walk on the path of sustainable development. Otherwise, the rural-urban divide will only widen with time.

Hello friends,

In my opinion, we really need smart cities. Because to fulfill the dream of "make in India", "digital India" firstly we need to make our cities smart and clean. The term smart means; increment in technology, 24 hours electricity and most importantly our education. If all these happen then we can say that our city is smart.

So, moving to the topic, to enhance our technology, to increase our economy and for the development of our country we really need smart cities.

And also I want all of your attention to our education. We need to improve our education system, The skilled teachers should be there to teach students, smart classes should have to be there through projectors and the classes should be more practical. Then we can make our city smart. "if our students will smart then our cities will be smart".

In conclusion, I want to say that we all should have to support the government to fulfill the dream of smart cities in India. We should have to clean our society and make others aware about this. And then the "swatch Bharat Abhiyan" can be completed.

Hi Friends, This is Sunil from Tamil Nadu. The Smart city is required if everyone in the country enjoys the basic necessity like a job, good healthy food, shelter, etc. America introduced smart city and they were successful but in India, it's completely a different scenario.

Farmers are suffering without adequate water and a lot of farmers were committed suicide.

A lot of agricultural lands are converted into residential lands in the real estate business which killed 20% of agriculture land.

Instead of forming a smart city, Government should focus on farmers and agriculture. They have to introduce schemes and provide a subsidy to the development of agriculture and ensure farmers are getting adequate water. The government need to develop village and provide free education and medical treatment to all the poor people in the village. If the government is not focusing on the farmers and agriculture lands then we need to import vegetables, rice and wheat from other countries. The government should invest in agriculture instead of forming smart city which is not necessary for India at present.

Yes, we definitely need of smart cities. But to make our cities smart we have to develop our villages smart. There are no facilities in the village still people in rural areas are faces a lot of problems than whether it is a hospital facility or farming, electricity. And to make our cities smart then there should be sustainable development first. One of the economists also said that India is a developed country still it is a developing country.

So, if you want to make our cities smart first we have to make our village smart then automatically our cities & country will get smart.

Hello,

Our topic is smart cities it is important for every developing country. It is important because every MNC looks forward only when they reach their stands. If we say smart cities people will talk about multiplex, hotels, motels, pubs, bars, towers, complex, but this not a real meaning of smart cities. We should develop our schools it means our education system, hospitals means our health and money mean banking, roadway railways means transport if develop all this then it is called smart city.

Hello, Everyone.

When we heard words "smart cities" we start imagining those cities with good infrastructure and full of facilities, neat and clean and good environment. But these all cannot be implemented completely until we people of developing country start thinking and living in a smart way.

This is because, if the government make something say put a dustbin along the road side, some people who are educated in real-manner only put the garbage into that box. But most of the population of the country are not that much educated or mannered that they put all garbage in dustbin only, they will throw it here and there and hence make the city polluted. And also after some someone either breaks the dustbin or take it away.

So we can conclude that before government implement the concept of smart cities in our country, it is necessary to make people of India smart by education, organising campaign awareness program etc. Hence once we become smart then almost 50% concept of smart city will get implemented.