Smart City In India

Cities are indispensible for the future of the nation – as cities are the growth engine of economy and melting pot of culture. In this era of urbanization the concept of Smart City is gaining more and more space throughout the world and in India also. Smart cities are intended to provide a better quality of life with the help of technological innovations and more efficient governance. But, another concept of sustainable city is coming up in terms of smart resource management without hampering the need of future generation and without causing any environmental degradation. The major objective of this paper is to understand the more complex idea of smart city in which social and human capital along with modern communication system has been used

Thus a Smart city should enable every citizen to engage with all the services on offer, public as well as private, in a way best suited to his or her needs. It brings together hard infrastructure, social capital including local skills and community institutions and technologies to fuel sustainable economic development and provide an attractive environment for all. To provide the aspirations and needs of the citizens in India, urban planners ideally aim at developing the entire urban eco-system, which is represented by the four pillars of comprehensive development which are institutional, physical, social and economic infrastructure. This can be a long term goal and cities can work towards developing such comprehensive infrastructure, adding on layers of smartness. Along with the infrastructural facilities, the smart city mission has an objective of providing a decent quality of living to its citizens. A clean and sustainable environment and intelligent use of natural resources in an efficient manner are required to achieve this goal. Environmental management and energy management are two core areas of providing smart solution to the smart city dwellers. Whenever the issue of urban natural environment management comes into the picture,

Without having a sustainable natural environment, no one really can think of achieving a decent quality of life. The notion of economic sustainability was firmly embodied in the writings of JS Mill (1848) and TR Malthus (1878). Mill emphasized that environment needs to be protected from unfettered growth if we are to preserve human welfare before diminishing returns set in. Malthus emphasized the pressures of exponential population growth on the finite resource base. Neither Mill nor Malthus is held in great esteem by most of today’s economic visionaries, who are more likely to follow technological optimism of David Ricardo (1817). On the other hand, environmental sustainability seeks to sustain global life-support system indefinitely. Protecting human life is the main reason anthropocentric humans seek environmental sustainability. In our modern urban age economic and infrastructural growth has been given central focus for the sake of overall social development. The definition of environmental sustainability hinges on distinguishing between growth and development. Large urban population, their rapid growth and affluence are not always sustainable. This kind unscrupulous growth often decreases people’s welfare, and put adverse effect on environmental sustainability (Daly and Cobb,