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The utopian concept of smart city has troubled parts of the world for ten years, attracting Prime Minister Modi's imagination, which seems to have finally made a breakthrough in India.
The Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley appointed Rs.
The 7,060 crore in the Union budget is designed to brainstorm for the creation of 100 "new" smart cities.
The National Urban Renewal Mission of Jawaharlal Nehru (JNNURM)
It's dead. de-
According to league City Development Minister M. , sac will be replaced by a new mission, which will be named after "national idol"Venkaiah Naidu.
Green city full of hope
The central idea is first-class facilities.
Larger cities will also be modernized to develop satellite towns around larger cities.
The urban population of India is 27.
It is expected to increase to 38 in 2001.
Naidu said it will reach 2 percentage points by 2026.
Census 2011 set this figure at 31. 6 per cent.
Jaitley announced that unless new cities are developed to accommodate the rapidly growing masses, existing cities will soon become unlivable.
The buzz between architects, bureaucrats, engineers and planners is obvious, and they expect India to eventually have its own version of Barcelona, Spain, and Songdo, South Korea, the PlanIT Valley in Portugal and the City of Madar in the UAE are coming soon.
At the very least, the blueprints of these smart cities, including India's own Lavasa, Aamby Valley and Dholera, are fascinating.
Clean Sky, high-rise buildings, luxury roads, zero pollution, driverless cars, new
The era of smart home appliances lighting and smart home.
Fully automated traffic management, intelligent parking systems, energy through real-time connectivity and networking of supercomputers and sensors
Efficient power grid, better municipal facilities and trash can, alarm when full load.
Basically, the commitment is to be able to manage and control the infrastructure system of urban life. In a bid to re-
The engineer's urban landscape, with a clear focus on infrastructure, is that enough to create livable space?
At the heart of the city is the people who use their energy, creativity, wisdom and needs to build the underlying cityup approach.
But under the concept of smart cities, the pyramids are subverted, building infrastructure first and then inviting people to adapt to these spaces. This top-down heavy-investment-
A typical process of a cityin-a-
He raised two important questions: Who will build these cities?
Who will live in it?
The forefront of global smart city development is international groups that, together with government officials, conceive, design and provide smart cities to citizens. While Nasdaq-
Cisco Systems, a listed IT company, is a major player in the field, with US group GE, Siemens Germany, multinational Hewlett-Packard, Philips, a Dutch diversified technology company, and Posco, a Korean steel giant) and real estate developer Gale International is also a major stakeholder in the urbanization revolution.
The real-time computer system of the New York Police Department was developed by IBM.
The city command center built in Rio for 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics has been executed by IBM.
Back home, Lodha Group has partnered with IBM to create "Sister City" and "City of Opportunity" Palava in Mumbai.
In his budget, Jaitley relaxed regional and capital conditions for foreign direct investment (FDI)
From 50,000 to 20,000, from $10 million to $5 million respectively, threeyear post-Complete lock-in.
Clearly, these global companies will make progress in investing in infrastructure and providing information and communication technologies for smart cities in India.
In Bangalore, Cisco, in partnership with the electronics city industry association, announced the transformation of the 320-hectare Bangalore Electronics City into a smart city.
The total turnover of 186 companies including Wipro and Infosys is Rs. 40,000 crore.
"This will be a replicable model for other parts of Bangalore, as well as other cities in India, across the region and other emerging markets," Cisco believes ".
Microsoft is working on a smart city project in Surat.
International financial technology center of GujaratCity (GIFT City)
A consortium led by Tata Consulting Services is being formed (TCS)
Joint entities of Cisco and Korea Telecom operator KT and Newgen ite Pvt Ltd and Newgen Holdings Pvt Ltd.
SmartCity Kochi is an IT special economic zone based on the SmartCity Malta model, with a 84% stake in TECOM Investments, a subsidiary of Dubai Holding.
Obviously, in terms of smart cities, the risk is too great for large enterprises.
Most smart cities in India are envisioned as business and IT centers, which will invite Fortune 500 companies from around the world to open their stores.
The addition of international banks and insurance companies is expected to boost economic growth, while fast-growing goods and services will drive growth.
Mobile Consumer goods (FMCG)
Businesses will drive consumer and retail growth. The large-
In the long run, the massive presence of foreign investment could make India's economy vulnerable. Public-
Private cooperation is the magic wand that makes these projects work.
Urban poverty accounts for a large part of the urban population.
But according to the plan on the drawings, the smart city did not create space for them at all.
Jaitley clarified that smart cities are being conceived for the new middle class.
"As development results benefit more and more people, the pace of migration from rural areas to cities is getting faster and faster.
"A new middle class is rising and they are eager to improve their living standards," Jaitley said in his budget speech . ".
Venkaiah Naidu said there was a surge in population from rural areas to urban centres for three reasons: education, employment and entertainment, adding that it put a burden on the metropolis.
In order to move this migration from the existing metropolis, new cities are being conceived.
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A mega-city of five planned cities is being built near Pune.
The man-made city was built on 10,000 hectares of land purchased and developed by Hindustan Construction Corporation (HCC).
It is a small town, Dasi, based on the Italian Potofino, and is famous all over the world.
First-class facilities.
Lavasa seems to be a wealthy island in central India, and it's hard to put together two meals a day.
For most Indians who can never afford Lavasa to be "smart", this seems to be a dystopian realization.
On 2010, the Federal Ministry of Environment and Forestry ordered the suspension of further construction in lieu of violations of environmental norms.
The order was revoked on November 2011.
Residents of 18 villages still in Lavasa did not sell their land, but management said they did not intend to remove the land and promised to coexist.
At the beginning of the project, some farmers sold an acre of land at a price as low as rupees. 5,000 (
An acre is equal to 0. 4 hectare).
Now they get a better price.
How long can or are willing to postpone the sale of 18 villages-
Millions of dollars.
According to Lavasa, many absentee landlords traveling to Mumbai and Pune to make a living have returned to Lavasa and are thriving.
A pharmacy, a school, a bamboo factory, a police station and a post office met their needs.
The provision of free water to all villagers is in good faith, not right.
A former employee, who did not want to be named, said that while it is the responsibility of the state to take care of citizens, people can ask the government for their rights and want to correct their problems, the capitalist system has no obligation to raise the status of the people.
In this case, the capitalist replaces the state as the guardian of the citizen.
While many people have purchased properties in Lavasa, there are very few people who actually migrate there due to the imperfect facilities.
According to the former employee, most of these people are very good.
Members of the National Health organization, including film stars, cricketers, bank chairs and bureaucrats.
The work of the local people has lifted some of them out of poverty, but opportunities remain limited, mainly for the well-off.
Some of them are construction workers, but live in labor colonies far away from wealthy residents.
Other options include small shops and contract workers.
This form of isolation is re-established in society.
Habitat engineering is discrimination in a capitalist environment.
This is in violation of the norms established by Lavasa: the norms of new urbanization, from pedestrians to ordinary residents, everyone has equal rights.
But according to the former employee, in fact, the Buffalo of the nomadic Koli, Dhangar tribes are not allowed to roam freely inside.
This raises the question, who are these cities built?
Are we moving towards a model where only the rich have the right to improve their lives and citizenship in smart cities and where regulated cities are socially or economically diverse?
While the major Indian festivals are celebrated in ravasa, the festivals and cultures of the indigenous peoples are slowly disappearing.
What is the political fusion or cultural structure being created?
Organic cities have history, people have a sense of belonging, they have stories to share.
In contrast, the new City floats in the perfect plastic culture of no color.
Given Lavasa's initial public offering and the draft red fish prospectus, HCC chose not to respond to the front line issue.
Although the details of the smart city project are still being finalized, there are rumors that the National Urban Affairs Institute, an autonomous agency under the Urban Development Department, may be the executive agency.
However, Professor Jagan Shah, director of the organization, said that there is no specific content yet. A self-
Shah, who claims to be the "chief evangelist" of the smart city, considers them potential game changers, refutes the myth that technology drives wisdom.
"How does the local people in Mumbai work without digital technology driving over the years?
"Because of the city's demands, a group of cadres are running on time," he said . ".
Surat uses smart technology to clean up garbage while Jabalpur and Visakhapatnam use electronicsgovernance.
These are all smart aspects, he said, but it is important that they force integration or that different staff members be separated.
If the municipalities are smart and there are very few human intermediaries, then rent-
Seeking can also be reduced to make things transparent, he said.
We have a lot of unstructured data that should be used to improve our lives.
But he also warned green cities that could eventually become ghost cities in China. “It is a low-
Hanging Fruit does not require much imagination.
"The idea of a smart city will continue to exist, but he quickly added that hopefully the work will not disappear in glitz, feeling --
Good action for all kinds of players because there is more danger here.
Somayya Madakam, a researcher at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
His research is based on the idea of smart city, which welcomes the idea of smart city.
He said that they provide quality life for urban residents, especially the rich, but they may also benefit the poor in many ways.
For example, they can help doctors with health interventions in rural areas where technology such as video conferencing is not available.
"Why does a child have to run 10 kilometers to school every day?
"People don't need to immigrate in order to find employment," he added . ".
According to the budget announcement, the Rs fund aims to coordinate the development of industrial corridors and connect smart cities with transportation.
Rs 100 has been provided to the national industrial corridor authority, based in Pune.
Smart city on both sides of the Amritsar Industrial CorridorKolkata (
7 Smart Cities in 7 states)and Chennai-Bangalore (
Ponneri, Tamil Nadu, Krishnapatnam, Andhra Pradesh and Tumkur, Karnataka)
In progress.
When people chase the dream of a smart city on paper, no matter which government is in power, implementation is the weakness of the country, which is no longer a secret.
According to JNNURM, 65 major cities have been identified to build urban infrastructure, but only 73 can be used by state and coalition territories.
Half of the Central aid was confiscated.
According to Venkaiah Naidu, 12,397 crowns, accounting for 49 of the promised central assistance.
A total of 668 small and medium-sized towns were reported to have made better use of the JNNURM fund, using central assistance in general.
At present, the dream of smart city only exists in the propaganda documents of big companies and government marketing teams.
Smart cities don't seem to be a turnkey solution to the problems in Indian cities.
As Siddhartha Murthy said, he belongs to a small town in southern India and travels a lot. he concluded, "instead of committing to high-speed trains and smart cities, it would make more sense if these resources could be used reasonably to improve the infrastructure of all people, such as the cleaner toilets on trains.