Zero foreign investment till date in Modi’s smart cities mission

[AndrewJin]

By smart means :
1. 24x7 Uninterrupted Electricity
2. 24x7 uninterrupted High-speed broadband
3. 24x7 CCTV cameras
and other basic stuff like you said.
If these are implemented, then next steps will renewable electricity and other things
Currently we have cities which are not properly planned, thus resulting into congestion, traffic jams, and water-logging
P.S Modi is also interested in getting Hyperloop from Tesla. Till now nothing is concrete about that though.

Dude...those are basic characteristics of urbanisation.....

 

[Kal Muah]

Dude...those are basic characteristics of urbanisation.....

I know that's why I said India hardly have cities 3 or 4 may be, that provides such features

 

[endyashainin]

By smart means :
1. 24x7 Uninterrupted Electricity
2. 24x7 uninterrupted High-speed broadband
3. 24x7 CCTV cameras
and other basic stuff like you said.
If these are implemented, then next steps will renewable electricity and other things
Currently we have cities which are not properly planned, thus resulting into congestion, traffic jams, and water-logging
P.S Modi is also interested in getting Hyperloop from Tesla. Till now nothing is concrete about that though.

So basically what Modi calls Smart City is really just a normal city.

I know that's why I said India hardly have cities 3 or 4 may be, that provides such features

Wrong, India doesn't have a single city that qualifies. Not one.

 

[AndrewJin]

So basically what Modi calls Smart City is really just a normal city.



Wrong, India doesn't have a single city that qualifies. Not one.

R u serious?

 

[coffee_cup]

I know that's why I said India hardly have cities 3 or 4 may be, that provides such features

Is it like creating new normal cities which are hyped as smart cities?

Just like asking foreign auto companies to set their assembling plants in India and call it "Make in India"?

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Is it like creating new normal cities which are hyped as smart cities?

Just like asking foreign auto companies to set their assembling plants in India and call it "Make in India"?

new 'normal cities'. If you're building new cities, you will obviously try to build them according to the smart principles.

 

[coffee_cup]

new 'normal cities'. If you're building new cities, you will obviously try to build them according to the smart principles.

But as AndrewJin has already pointed out, this is normal urbanisation. What is so "smart" about that?

Guess it is more like marketing to fool the local population.

 

[endyashainin]

new 'normal cities'. If you're building new cities, you will obviously try to build them according to the smart principles.

What load of bullshit!

R u serious?

Yes. Not one Indian city has stable 24/7 electricity supply and high-speed internet. Not one.

 

[coffee_cup]

Yes. Not one Indian city has stable 24/7 electricity supply and high-speed internet. Not one.

You might be mistaken.

Can any Indian confirm this statement? Not even one Indian city has stable 24/7 electricity supply?

This is quite confusing and does not match with all the rhetoric we hear from Modi.

 

[AndrewJin]

What load of bullshit!



Yes. Not one Indian city has stable 24/7 electricity supply and high-speed internet. Not one.

R u serious?
No universal stable electricity on 365 days in any major city?

 

[endyashainin]

R u serious?
No universal stable electricity on 365 days in any major city?

Actually, no stable 24/7 electricity in ANY city, major or small.

R u serious?
No universal stable electricity on 365 days in any major city?

It's not just electricity. No Indian city has 24/7 water supply or 100% sewage and waste treatment. Indian cities are incredibly dirty due to a lack of sanitation facilities. People pee and defecate in public. Trash is littered everywhere. People have to carry jugs for miles to collect water. In some cases, there are water tanker trucks that deliver water to neighborhoods maybe once or twice a week. Brownouts and blackouts are frequent. This is why many offices and factories have their own backup diesel generators. About 20% of electricity is lost through theft. Many simply steal electricity by latching a wire to the main electric cables.

Modi's Smart City initiative is just marketing. Indians are too ignorant to know better. Modi's smart cities will not have a smart power grid running on renewables with off-peak storage, they will not have IoTs or 5G, they won't have intelligent traffic monitoring. What Modi has in mind is what the rest of the world has had in some form for the past 50 years.

 

[Pakistan First]

How about smart villages with latrines? I am sure India has the technology and money to do it. You do what you can afford to do in the first place instead of dreaming all day long and do nothing.

Bingo. You hit the bullseye mate.

 

[pikkuboss]

So basically what Modi calls Smart City is really just a normal city.



Wrong, India doesn't have a single city that qualifies. Not one.

Bro the smart city project is not even in the beginning stage yet. Let us see what new it brings.

 

[endyashainin]

Bro the smart city project is not even in the beginning stage yet. Let us see what new it brings.

This isn't magic or praying for the rain: let's see what happens next. This is, according to Modi, a serious long-term project across all of India. You can't go about this willy and nilly, like how Suresh Kalmadi did with the preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. You have to have very detailed planning and timely execution over a period of decades, assuming you have enough money to pay for all this and enough talent to build it. Can India pull this off?

What has India done since independence that gives us the confidence that these "Smart Cities" will be built?

I repeat, this isn't a game. Chalt hai or jugaad won't do. Has India reached out to Singapore to learn from its experience? Singapore has the finest expertise in the world in urban planning and construction. Even China looks to Singapore for advice.

I'm afraid this smart city initiative is just a marketing gimmick, done purely to rally the ignorant. It's just like president Abdul Kalam's "India 2020" initiative or Manmohan Singh's promise to make Mumbai better than Shanghai. Indians take the bait everytime and get all excited over nothing.

 

[Kal Muah]

So basically what Modi calls Smart City is really just a normal city.



Wrong, India doesn't have a single city that qualifies. Not one.

Please don't speak of something that you have no Idea. Here are India's top cities :
1. Bengaluru

2. Pune

3. Chandigarh

4. Gurgaon

5. Noida