Smart Cities will be the grandest failure
I feel the Govt's Smart City scheme is a big failure and will most likely be its grandest failure.
3 years have passed. The govt keeps making announcement. In 2014 they said Varanasi Ajmer and Vizag will be 3 smart cities sponsored by 3 countries.
What happened. Zilch, Zero, Zapata!
They keep doing all kind of city rankings, some opportunists organise smart city conferences, bunch of fools sponsor and participate.
Municipal Commisooner and mayors of these so called smart cities are jugadofyng how to make a shit load of messages money through smart city.
Like this circle gave feedback to Modi sahab on demonetisation, they should give feedback on smart cities and the focus and money should from smart city to rehne layak city.
Can many of you who are more knowledgeable express your opinions and share if my fears are well placed or misplaced.
Modi sahab is commitEd to nation but his babu sahabs i am unsure about. more
3 years have passed. The govt keeps making announcement. In 2014 they said Varanasi Ajmer and Vizag will be 3 smart cities sponsored by 3 countries.
What happened. Zilch, Zero, Zapata!
They keep doing all kind of city rankings, some opportunists organise smart city conferences, bunch of fools sponsor and participate.
Municipal Commisooner and mayors of these so called smart cities are jugadofyng how to make a shit load of messages money through smart city.
Like this circle gave feedback to Modi sahab on demonetisation, they should give feedback on smart cities and the focus and money should from smart city to rehne layak city.
Can many of you who are more knowledgeable express your opinions and share if my fears are well placed or misplaced.
Modi sahab is commitEd to nation but his babu sahabs i am unsure about. more
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Harish Bhai, google for "Smart City". You will find some names there. In my opinion, only a highly responsible and dedicated Municipal administration, independent of State government's day to day interference in its working, can develop a city into a Smart City . The development works call for private participation. A private investment require ease of doing business and honest administration. In the lack of these parameters, project Smart City is unlikely to take off. On our part, do we, the public,is honest about our duty - paying taxes. How many in every city pay their property tax which is one of the source of revenue for Municipality. Let us do our part first before pointing out fault with government. more
Sep 19
The facts, in my humble opinion are as below. (a) There is no universal definition of Smart City, (b) In the name of making a city public money is and will continue to be syphoned off by the cunning Govt. Officers and Politicians with no perceivable benefit to the public, (c) Common public of all Indian cities, without any exception, still is not clear about what is Swachh Bharat and how is it going to be achieved because almost all think that throwing their filth in public places is their birth right and their would be some other "paid servants" who will pick up the filth and dispose it off, (d) I have yet to meet any person who has been able to spell out what to expect additionally in a Smart City. Because of these reasons I tend to agree with Mr. Harish Randhawa although I wish that if there is some real substance in a city being declared a Smart City then all the cities of India soon achieve the desired "Smartness". I live in Ahmedabad and I would consider my city to be a really Smart City on the day when: (1) a victim of road accident is able to reach the Emergency Ward of a hospital within 30 minutes of the accident having occurred. If this cannot happen in my city, I can bet that it cannot occur in any other city of India; (2) Fire Tenders with Fire Fighters reach a building that is ablaze, within 30 minutes of the fire having broken out and that too without anyone having bothered to make a telephonic call to either Police or Fire Brigade or on 112; (3) Police will reach crime spot within 10 minutes of a call having been made to 100 or 112 or 108. If all of that enumerated above cannot occur then "Smart City" thing is a big hoax and no more than that. more
Jun 13
Harish Bhai, Let us play our part, work at least two hours a week to contribute to the Smart City concept/ more
Jun 12
On introducing the Smart City Scheme, the government had stipulated the requirements and infrastructure for becoming a city or town eligible for selection for undertaking for further development to make them smart cities in real sense. Accordingly, none of our cities were fulfilling those requirements and having the infrastructures stipulated. But looking to the huge money proposed to be spent on each city selected for further development as smart one, the state governments manipulated the data of their cities in a big way and submitted their recommendations for selection of their cities for development as smart cities. The list of the cities finally selected last year for the purpose contained more than 200 cities of the country 99% of which did not fulfil even 10% of the requirements stipulated and their development as smart city may not be possible because of many inherent adversity. Accordingly, the so called 'Smart City' proposal is proving to be not more than a political stunt the politicians often use to make us fool. more
Jun 12
