Feedback on Smart Cities Initiative

We have been receiving lots of comments on smart cities. The initiative launched in 2015 was to create 100 smart cities in India but many of you have reported that little has been achieved. With this post we would like to seek your inputs on what are you seeing in these smart cities, what issues do you see and what progress or lack of progress do you see. Below is the list of criterias some of you had suggested for Smart Cities in 2015. We look forward to your inputs!

Smart City Criteria according to citizens

1. The city should be relatively more connected with the surrounding cities and states
2. City should have urban local bodies who have demonstrated execution capabilities
3. The urban local bodies should have leadership that is inclined to engage citizens, adopt transparency, technology and skill development
4. The District Administration leadership should be committed to achieving improvements and working with citizens
5. The District Police leadership should have a strong commitment to improving law and order and reducing corruption
6. City should have demonstrated significant improvement in cleanliness since launch of Swachh Bharat Mission
7. Citizens should have a participative inclination for city’s betterment
8. The city should have a functional drainage system
9. The city should have space for building new roads/highways and upgrade the existing ones
10. The city should have potential for expansion and population growth
11. The literacy rate in these cities should be higher than others in the state
12. The city should have some established schools and college infrastructure and the potential to easily expand it
13. The city should have some industries or the ecosystem to start them. more  

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Good work is happening everywhere, but the work is going to slow down more  
So far so good.Keep doing work.Citizens/Local bodies should also have to understand their responsibilities.Rome was not build in a day.Older portion of the cities were made hundreds of years back and keeping in mind the requirements of that period including enemy attacks/atrocities by Muslim rulers. more  
Residents on outskirts of a City do not get enough signals. Residents on 20th or 30th floor of a costly high rise buildings do get weak signals. Less than 50% areas of a city get good signal. Where is "smart city " ? more  
So long as people are shabby we cannot think of any smart city. more  
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