Smart Cities: How Smart? How Sustainable?
Experts debate the impact of India’s Smart Cities Mission seven years after the programme was launched in 2015.Smart Cities: How Smart? How Sustainable?The Smart Cities Mission in India was launched seven years ago, in June 2015, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as an urban renewal and retrofitting programme. The objective of the smart city initiative is to promote sustainable and inclusive cities that provide core infrastructure to give a decent quality of life, a clean and sustainable environment through application of some smart solutions such as data-driven traffic management, intelligent lighting systems, etc. Sustainability is the operative word when it comes ...
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