Do we really need Smart Cities?

What I personally feel is India can only be a smart city. Till the time India is a developing country. Knowing the United states is a developed country But, United States never claim to be one just because if they claim they are developed no other country will come and will even think of investing in US. So, for making India a smart City India should always be a developing country. Bullet trains come to India just because India is a Developing country.

Yes. There is a need of smart city in India. Firstly, a smart city means that all facilities are available there, good transport, education facility, hospital, park and cleanliness is a most important factor among them. There are only countable smart cities in India. Because Indian people are not giving attention to cleanliness and also government. So they have to pay attention to cleanliness and implement various programs about it.

Yes, of course, we really need smart cities. As smart cities makes people updated about the current trend & technology & also provides a lot of platforms where one can showcase his ability, skills or talent among people. Although if we think that we can showcase our talent in rural areas as well but it's found not easy due to lack of resources which are only available in smart cities.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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 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.