Key Highlights
- Smart Cities, Brilliant way of developing sustainable future
- Aims to boost India’s economic growth
- Innovations that will surely sway away citizen’s lifestyle
- Smart Cities must see current technologies’ inescapable obsolescence
What will happen if the resources we actively pursue and use cease to exist? This thought has surely given you a nightmare. So, to save you from this absurd thought, let’s take you through a viable route where the Government of India has undertaken Smart City Mission to ensure sustainable development and economic growth.
Urban planning is fundamentally changing as a result of the move toward smarter cities, which is being accelerated by governments all over the world. According to studies, the market for “smart cities” throughout the world is expanding so quickly that it is predicted to surpass USD2.5 trillion as early as 2025, which is more than double the estimated market size of US$1 trillion in 2020. A few of the major internet businesses in the world are still making significant investments in smart city initiatives, despite the fact that the pandemic’s economic demands have temporarily put a halt to some smart city development.
Digital innovation can only significantly enhance the quality of life for citizens by taking a deliberate, methodical approach tailored to the particular demands of a city and its residents. Some ways which are directly oriented to achieve the Smart City Mission includes technological measures for the betterment of lives, public-private stakeholders collaborating in a beneficial way, approaching counter-measures by following data-centric approaches to secure the policies in the right place at the right time, and always putting the citizens first. It is so as the cities will be serving their best to the citizens in the end, so resources and sustainable development will come in handy only if there are citizens to utilise them at par.
A city can never stop growing in terms of adapting to new technological advancements yet sourcing new ways towards sustainable development and hiking economic growth. And some of the upcoming smart cities in India to reach for the very aim include Dholera Smart City, Naina Smart City, Yeida City, Naya Raipur Smart City, Gift City, Khed City and Dream City. These will all achieve the status of smart cities along with all the policies and changes.
