Do we really need Smart Cities?

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.

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.

According to me, thedevelopment of smart cities has both pros and cons i. E, coming to pros smart cities gives scope to education, hospitals, transportation, needs for enjoyment like parks, greenery and so many, this helps the people who are living in cities and also in towns to lead their life.

But, Coming to cons, I would like to bring a point that for making or developing smart cities we need land for construction which indirectly effects the farmers who are really serving hard to run there life.

Hence I conclude that development of smart cities should start from villages by making use of agriculture machinery, electricity, water facilities. And their basic needs. Then we can dream and succeed for smart cities, smart India.

According to me, cities and towns having the high infrastructure, high-level communication, easy transport and access to every basic thing that makes life easy combines to make up a smart city or town. So the basic is "ease of life". Metropolitans and big cities are getting far more advantages than the rural areas to grow on these lines as such people are still lagging behind. The focus should be more on the roots than the main bark I mean we should first to connect our source of food, the farmers and the rural people to this growing world. Initiatives should b taken for their welfare first providing them a better quality of seeds, fertilizers, machinery, proper water & power supply and connectivity.

India, a country with a population of 132.46 cr out of which 66.46% comprises of the rural population requires to bring up a "Movement of Smartness" focused especially on rural population for over a decade. Do this then think of words like "smart cities and all". It takes time because the population of 132 cr is not a joke.

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.

According to my opinion, the Smart cities are those which are having proper facilities of clean water supply, healthy food, hygienic living condition, 24 hrs electricity. Ignoring these factors concept of the smart city can't be achieved. Thinking of Bullet trains, free wifi services, technological advancement without fullfilling basic amenities that one common person wants will not do anything in developing our country. We have to increase our literacy rate, maintain poulation sex ratio, reduce malnutrition, provides connectivity to rural villages, better wages to farmers. We should first think of women empowerment, increase employment, stop mob lynching, rape cases. After fullfillment of all these needs & facilities we can think of other requirements. So, first of all, make smart people, smart society as without achieving this it is pointless to think about the smart city.

Yes, indeed we need smart cities. But the question is that how these cities can be made it's not a one day process. In fact, the famous thinker of Greece (Yunan) "Plato" clarified that smart people make the smart cities in his theory of an Ideal State. So again the big question rises here how People become smart? So there is no rocket science for people getting smarter just there need if a man just follows simple rules and regulations that will make him smarter and city automatically become smart. As we take the example of Indore Madhya Pradesh we see that with the integrated efforts of public and administration the planning came into effect resulting the district topped the list of a clean city. So main focus should we develop smart thinking situation such projects became reality.

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".

In my opinion, we are not able to work with the problems we are already facing as controlling water in smart cities like Mumbai during rainy seasons and we are thinking about the smart cities I agree it is a cool idea.

But we should deal with the basics then we should move ahead.

As we always step on the first step of ladder not directly jump to the last.

According to me, yes, of course, we need smart cities. But before that we should think our basic needs that should be fulfilled, why we are running for bullet trains and all, our India is agriculturally based that's why we only focussing things which are beneficial for these. Also we can adopt technology according to need. We should develop technology we required not other. Some countries are very advanced in technology, we can't beat them before going through our basic needs. First off all literacy is required for that we should first work on it when we talk about the advanced which are required for quality development.