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    The document discusses perceptions and goals of smart cities globally and in India. It notes that globally, smart cities aim to overcome urban challenges through technology, while in India citizens have mixed understandings of smart cities. The government's goal with its Smart City Mission is comprehensive urban development of selected areas through infrastructure and services to demonstrate improvements to cities. The mission has influenced urban development systems positively by increasing city capacities and engagement. Key achievements include infrastructure projects, cultural heritage preservation, and traffic management improvements in many cities. Ongoing challenges include managing new assets and ensuring financial sustainability.

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    The document discusses perceptions and goals of smart cities globally and in India. It notes that globally, smart cities aim to overcome urban challenges through technology, while in India citizens have mixed understandings of smart cities. The government's goal with its Smart City Mission is comprehensive urban development of selected areas through infrastructure and services to demonstrate improvements to cities. The mission has influenced urban development systems positively by increasing city capacities and engagement. Key achievements include infrastructure projects, cultural heritage preservation, and traffic management improvements in many cities. Ongoing challenges include managing new assets and ensuring financial sustainability.

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    The document discusses perceptions and goals of smart cities globally and in India. It notes that globally, smart cities aim to overcome urban challenges through technology, while in India citizens have mixed understandings of smart cities. The government's goal with its Smart City Mission is comprehensive urban development of selected areas through infrastructure and services to demonstrate improvements to cities. The mission has influenced urban development systems positively by increasing city capacities and engagement. Key achievements include infrastructure projects, cultural heritage preservation, and traffic management improvements in many cities. Ongoing challenges include managing new assets and ensuring financial sustainability.

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    Perception of Smart City Globally

     The challenges faced by the cites across the world are primarily climate change, congestion, health,
    safety and access to municipal service. The global understanding of a smart city is to overcome
    these urban challenges by use of innovative methods while leveraging the power of
    technology.

    Perception of Smart City amongst Indian Citizens

     Upon numerous interactions and feedback from local residents and also from other sector
    experts, we saw that the citizens have a very mix understanding of smart city. Many have
    aspiration that complete city will transform and every thing will become perfect. Other think
    that a separate area far from city is being developed as Smart city.

     This lack of information of Govt. Scheme has increased the attrition within the citizens and
    the overall progress which smart city has achieved has been shadowed.

    What is Govt. Aspiration under Smart City Mission?

     The idea behind GoI Smart City mission was not just to enhance city services through ICT but
    also to do a comprehensive development of the city.

     Urban infrastructure development has been a struggling area in Indian scenario because of
    few key reasons such as: Pace of urbanization, Limited Funds and limited capacity of govt.

     To develop a city in a comprehensive manner which includes all physical infrastructure and
    all social infrastructure is virtually impossible to achieve.

     With above understanding Govt. of India initiated this Smart City mission in which one area
    of the city (Selected through consultative process) will be developed in a comprehensive
    manner. Development of small area (less than 10%) of city will require less fund and
    technical resources.

     The cross-cutting sectors includes all sectors; core infrastructure, transport infrastructure,
    health, education, landscape, commercial area etc.

     Complementing above shall be the ICT based services (for entire city) which will make citizen
    services more efficient and accessible. Such as ICCC, ITMS, VTMS, Security Systems etc.

     This initiative shall demonstrate, how a completely developed area may look like to rest of
    the city. This comprehensive development will become aspiration of the entire city and a
    self-awarded citizen can make difference with participation and ownership.

    How is this mission influencing the urban development systems?

     The city administrators and leaders were given liberty to utilize the funds in their aspiration
    of smart city which shall be based upon citizen involvement.

     The sudden increase of city capacity of turning ideas to project is mainly because of new
    approach adopted in the smart cities, were cities endeavor their aspirational project and
    showcase the progress in a competitive platform.

     The city administrators and politicians are taking ownership of projects which is bringing
    behavioral change in urban development system.
     The real winners in the smart city mission are tier 2 and tier 3 cities which can realize their
    dream project transform the urban fabric of their cities. Funds of 1000 Cr may be small
    amount for large cities like Pune whose municipal annual budget is approx. 6000 Cr. But for
    a small city like Ujjain whose annual budget is 500 Cr, a grant of 1000 Cr is game changing.

     With the substantial investment capacity smaller cities are getting the exposure of national
    and international expertise and are striving to achieve international project standards.

     The team of expert are available full time and are supporting the cities with other projects
    and are building capacity of city engineers and administrators.

     This mission is perfectly aligned with National Urban Development Strategy to urbanize tier
    2 and 3 cities and reduce the pressure and migration towards metro cities.

    What has been few key achievements

     Smart city mission was introduced in 2015, and since then the 100 smart cities has floated
    tenders worth Rs. 382.07 billion and projects worth Rs 101.16 1 billion are completed in the
    100 cities.

     Identification and embracing City cultural heritage and developing in similar lines. The cities
    which have rich cultural heritage have revived their heritage and has built along it. Eg. Is
    Varanasi and Ujjain.

     Major support to traffic and transportation. The Smart cities aided the traffic department in
    execution of State of art Intelligent traffic management system and ICCC which is improving
    the traffic situation in many cities.

     Capacity building of Manipal Corporations and line departments.

    Few Challenges

     Management of asset created. The O&M of developed asset has become a challenge as it
    involves high recurring expenditure and line departments who are responsible of O&M of
    respective services are not ready to bear such O&M cost. Eg. Is Underground electrification.

     Sustainability of SPV as land monetization or other revenue sources have not realized. If the
    SPC was suppose to have a recurring income from capitalization of land assets and through
    share from municipal corporation enhanced revenue. But this has not been able to realize
    because of many land dispute matter and limited or no municipal revenue enhancement.

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    Source: Mission Director, Smart Cities, MoHUA, Video Conference May 2019,

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