It takes time to develop a Smart
City from scratch. PM Modi has announced the development of 100 Smart Cities in
India.
Greenfield projects are few. The
focus is to upgrade existing cities to Smart Cities.
Types
of Smart Cities in India can be divided into the major categories:
a)
Greenfield
Projects: The size of such projects will vary from 100 acres to 2000+ acres.
Strictly speaking these do not fall under the term City. At best these can fall
under Smart Enclaves, as all the Greenfield projects are planned within an
enclosed area.
b)
Up
gradation of existing towns:
MOUD has recently released a concept
paper of the approach for India’s Smart Cities.
Across
India, there are a number of players planning their contribution to the Smart
Cities.
Infosys
has taken the first step towards this. Infosys has decided to upgrade their
Mysore Campus into the Smart City mode by April 2015.
Read
the full news press release here.
The campus will be a demonstrable model as to how a Smart City in India will
look like.
5
main advantages of this demo city:
a)
Immediate
scalable.
b)
Minimal
investment.
c)
Perfect
model for other stakeholders.
d)
Excellent
branding tool.
e) The
complete suite of a Smart City i.e Energy conversation, Electronic
Transactions, Waste Management, Security etc can be showcased in one model.
