BACKGROUND:- During
Election campaigning Narendra Modi promised to voters that once he will
be PM of the country, few of the Indian cities will get an opportunity
to be called as Smart City. And
these cities will raise the lifestyle of INDIANS as well as will work
as the engines of the economy After becoming PM he kept his promise and
last year 98 cities were shortlisted for smart city project.
Of the 98 cities
and towns that five years down will graduate into smart cities, 24 are
capital cities, another 24 are business and industrial centres, 18 are
culture and tourism influenced areas, five are port cities and three are
education and health care hubs. Statewise distribution of cities was
like 13 from Uttar Pradesh, 12 from Tamil Nadu, 10 from Maharashtra, 7 from Madhya Pradesh, 3 each from Bihar & Andhra Pradesh.
PRESENT SCENARIO:-Union
Minister for Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday declared
the first list of 20 cities out of the 98 short-listed for the Smart
Cities Mission.The
Ministry has no role in the selection of the cities and an expert
committee set up by the Ministry is looking into it, Mr. Naidu said.The next two years will see the inclusion of 40 and 38 cities, respectively.
LIST OF 20 SMART CITIES IN FIRST ROUND
WHAT IS SMART CITY?
The
first question is what is meant by a ‘smart city’. The answer is, there
is no universally accepted definition of a smart city. It means
different things to different people. The conceptualisation of Smart
City, therefore, varies from city to city and country to country,
depending on the level of development, willingness to change and reform,
resources and aspirations of the city residents. A smart city would
have a different connotation in India than, say, Europe. Even in India,
there is no one way of defining a smart city.
Some definitional boundaries are required
to guide cities in the Mission. In the imagination of any city dweller
in India, the picture of a smart city contains a wish list of
infrastructure and services that describes his or her level of
aspiration. To provide for the aspirations and needs of the citizens,
urban planners ideally aim at developing the entire urban eco-system,
which is represented by the four pillars of comprehensive
development-institutional, physical, social and economic infrastructure.
This can be a long term goal and cities can work towards developing
such comprehensive infrastructure incrementally, adding on layers of
‘smartness’.
A
'smart city' is an urban region that is highly advanced in terms of
overall infrastructure, sustainable real estate, communications and
market viability. It is a city where information technology is the
principal infrastructure and the basis for providing essential services
to residents. There are many technological platforms involved, including
but not limited to automated sensor networks and data centres.
Currently we can't expect smart cities
fully automated and full of technology like European countries plan
& have. Strong reason behind this is that most of our metro cities
are not well planned and consist of slums and dwells too.
- Adequate water supply
- Assured electricity supply
- Sanitation, including solid waste management
- Efficient urban mobility and public transport
- Affordable housing, especially for the poor
- Robust IT connectivity and digitalisation
- Good governance, especially e-Governance and citizen participation
- Sustainable environment
- Safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children and the elderly
- Health and education
SMART CITY FUNDING:-After
the Stage 1 of the challenge, each potential Smart City will be given
an advance of Rs. two crore for preparation of SCP which will come from
the city’s share of the A&OE funds and will be adjusted in the share
of the city.In the first year,
Government proposes to give Rs.200 crore to each selected smart city to
create a higher initial corpus. After deducting the Rs. Two crore
advance and A&OE share of the MoUD, each selected Smart City will be
given Rs. 194 crore out of Rs. 200 crore in the first year followed by
Rs. 98 crore out of Rs. 100 crore every year for the next three years.
For full list of 98 smart cities and points earned on the basis of various criterions click here
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