Standards for Smart Cities: Citizen Inputs

Below are the key expectations of citizens from a Smart City in India. Kindly review the same and if you have inputs on what should be the Standards for a Smart City in India, please share the same. LocalCircles and Bureau of Indian Standards will soon be engaging the CEOs of Smart Cities across India on this.

We look forward to your inputs!

Citizen expectation from Smart Cities.

1. 24X7 supply of Power and Water
2. Effective waste collection and disposal system
3. Efficient Public Transportation
4. Good Air Quality
5. Citizen Oriented Governance with all departments connected to citizens electronically
6. Smart Policing and very low crime rate
7. Disaster and Emergency Readiness infrastructure
8. Over 75% planned housing and roads
9. Availability of jobs
10. Good education, health and recreation infrastructure
11. Should be more pedestrian friendly
12. Electronic/IT monitoring and vigilance of high quality
13. Waste to Wealth recycling infrastructure
14. Strict enforcement of air, water, and noise pollution laws
15. Wi-fi/connectivity and intelligent lighting in streets and building
16. Adequate parking lots for vehicles
17. Adequate open areas and parks in every ward
18. Citizen problem reporting - within 24 hours the problem should be attended to
19. Recycling of waste water and ground recharge of rain water.
20. All street and public lights to be solar powered.
21. Infrastructure to pick up and manage stray animals more  

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Nice post....in fact land to be reserved for parks, amenities, govt. offices....hope these will be part of the standard... On Wed, 08 May 2019 09:20:44 +0530 Nazim Iqbal wrote > > Nazim Iqbal Nazim Iqbal commented on the Post Nazim wrote: "inclusion of footpaths for all roads - though quite obvious are often neglected and left in half attended state. Footpaths are central in new cities for people to discover the city and meet new people. It also promote the healthy habit of walking. Secondly adequate attention should be given to quality, design and placement of street furniture. All of these factors encourage the amount of time people spend outdoor - again important from a people connect and health perspective. Upward of 70% population in India has been reported to be Vitamin D deficient. " View/Comment Reply to this email to post a comment. more  
Inclusion of footpaths for all roads - though quite obvious are often neglected and left in half attended state. Footpaths are central in new cities for people to discover the city and meet new people. It also promote the healthy habit of walking. Secondly adequate attention should be given to quality, design and placement of street furniture. All of these factors encourage the amount of time people spend outdoor - again important from a people connect and health perspective. Upward of 70% population in India has been reported to be Vitamin D deficient. more  
Dear Circle manager, Please open this link and read it:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GDO6eG6gewGVEWv87IBTg-BdOSUGHzEg/view?usp=drivesdk more  
Make rain water harvesting compulsory in all houses. If the house owners opposes it make the tax 5 times until they build in their house. more  
Mr. Venkat Ashok Pokuri, pl. click this link and read my suggestions and issues which are equally important and share your valuable views. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GDO6eG6gewGVEWv87IBTg-BdOSUGHzEg/view?usp=drivesdk more  
It is already compulsory for new constructions. Only in old localities of any city and town it is bit difficult to do so. more  
All these are big problems no doubt - but you need to do lots of follow up chasing ? but if they GOI/ BANKS/ ANY CORPORATE WANTS CUSTOMERS TO DO THEIR WORK - THEN PAY CUSTOMER TO BANK ACCOUNT - LIKE U PAY EMPLOYEES SALARIES RIGHT - example Bank pass book customer has to update himself/ herself FREE WHY - and half the times machines do not work / connectivity not there - hang ho gaya etc - we only suffer - our costs time efforts n money ? then example a bank can charge 2 times in a year for ATM card for same person did you know - its our follow up for mistakes made by the management systems ? Then what kind of SYSTEMS DO MANAGEMENT TREAMS GO MAKE - AND PAY CRORES IN SALARIES FOR WHAT ? TO FINALLY MAKE CUSTOMER ONLY WORK FOR FREE ? more  
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