Smart city mission: Area wise to city wide

Hi-tech command and control centres to coordinate municipal functions, redevelopment of river fronts, removal of landfill sites to reclaim land and solar streetlighting – these have completely turned around the urban landscape in the selected cities. (Representative Image)

Synopsis
During Modi 1.0, the ministry of housing and urban affairs came up with a new concept of Smart City Mission. Every aspiring smart city prepared a Smart City Proposal (SCP) for the area it wanted to smarten up.

Five years after the first set of 20 cities were chosen to smarten up under Modi government’s flagship 100 Smart Cities Mission with eco-friendly hi-tech solutions for urban problems, many lessons have been learnt. Hi-tech command and control centres to coordinate municipal functions, redevelopment of river fronts, removal of landfill sites to reclaim land and solar streetlighting – these have completely turned around the urban landscape in the

Nidhi Sharma

ET Bureau

5 mins read, Last Updated:

Jan 16, 2021, 07:50 AM IST

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