Prime Minister Narendra Modi perceives India’s future as one where in the residents live better in a healthier environment availing better utilities and have access to basic necessities of life. With the vision for a brighter future of India, he has launched several missions and programs targeting towards his goal.
A shelter to dwell in is a basic necessity of every human and keeping this in view, Mr. Modi has come up with a Housing for all vision by the year 2022 giving rise to the need of building 90 million homes – a very challenging task indeed. It is first India’s Greenfields Smart City Developed Dholera SIR by government.Similarly he has initiated Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), a mission started to ensure that each household has a sure shot supply of water and sewerage connection, ample greenery and open spaces such as parks is available in the cities and reduction in air pollution through improved traffic management and transition to vehicles with lower carbon emissions.
“Make in India” is another major step towards boosting innovation and foster skill development while protecting intellectual property at the same time. However, the biggest of all missions undertaken is the development of smart cities to create a better and more sustainable India – We shall discuss about this in detail.
Government of India has come up with the plan of developing 100 smart cities spread across all states. While Uttar Pradesh has been given the opportunity to nominate 13 smart cities for this purpose, Tamil Nadu is not far behind and has the chance to nominate 12 cities. Other smaller states can nominate two or less names for the selection of Dholera Smart City. Based on several parameters such as revenue, expenditure, solid waste management, infrastructure and many others, the government shall then decide on the 100 cities that are worthy of going a step ahead and being developed as smarter ones. The five smart cities that are to be built on the DMIC are Dholera in Gujarat, Shendra-Bidkin in Maharashtra, Vikram Udyogpuri Township near Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, Integrated Industrial Township in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh and Gurgaon in Haryana.
It is important to follow a bottom-up approach instead of a top-down approach for the smart city as the later might lead to failure. A good example is Delhi Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) which was based upon similar system in Curitiba, Brazil. The development and implementation plans were derived from the existing example but the practical aspects such as urban density and actual requirements of Delhi’s residents were overlooked in the process. The result was failure. It is therefore important that everything is well integrated and coordinated and the city is envisioned correctly. The funding requirement should also be assessed correctly and a ground level approach should be followed while implementing the project.
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