ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF FUTURE SMART CITIES IN INDIA (original) (raw)

Smart Cities for Sustainable Development in India: Opportunities and Challenges

European Journal of Sustainable Development

The concept of Sustainable development underlines the long lasting development of an economy by an efficient resource use fulfilling the economic, social and environmental aspects together. The SDGs by the UNDP focus on 17 goals for all countries to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.The mission of Smart Cities in India is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions. The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development of the Mega cities, an indispensable outcome of the development process and urbanization implied in it. During the course of economic development over last 70 years in India, many cities have emerged as unsustainable and highly vulnerable to manmade calamities.This paper would elaborate on the details of Smart city project in India in the light of Sustainable development. The Smart citie...

International Conference on Geo-Engineering and Climate Change Technologies for Sustainable Environmental Management SMART CITIES LEADING INDIA TOWARDS A DEVELOPED NATION

Discovery Journal, 2015

For better tomorrow, creating "smart" city is emerging as an approach to trim down or to omit the problems generated because of urbanization and will improve standard of living of rising population. To feature India in the category of developed nation we necessitate to work upon several areas and smart cities are among one of them. This paper proposes a concise idea about how Government of India is showing their sensitivity in the direction of making cities smarter. Government of India has already set parameters which will play a huge role in making smart cities possible. Development of 100 smart cities as satellite towns around existing smart cities, a vision of "Prime Minister of India", has already instigated in phases. 20 cities will be selected in the first phase. This paper will also discuss a case study of Chandigarh that is going to be selected for phase-I.

Roll of Smart Cities in the Sustainable Development of India

Cities are engines of growth for the economy of every nation, including India. Nearly 31% of India's current population lives in urban areas and contributes 63% of India's GDP (Census 2011). With increasing urbanization, urban areas are expected to house 40% of India's population and contribute 75% of India's GDP by 2030. This requires comprehensive development of physical, institutional, social and economic infrastructure. All are important in improving the quality of life and attracting people and investments to the City, setting in motion a virtuous cycle of growth and development. Development of Smart Cities is a step in that direction. In the approach to the Smart Cities Mission, the objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of 'Smart' Solutions. The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a replicable model which will act like a light house to other aspiring cities.

Challenges for Self-Sustainable Smart Cities in India

As the global urban population grows, so does the demand for resources. However, resources are limited to cater to the demand of the population growth. Cities must employ new approaches to address this demand gap in order to restore equilibrium to the system and ensure sustainable development. This study tries to emphasise the importance of regional approach towards Smart City Bilaspur development, where the importance of sustainability has been overshadowed by economic and infrastructure factors.

Environment and Big Data: Role in Smart Cities of India

Resources, 2018

The intention of India’s Smart City Mission program is to achieve better living conditions in a sustainable environment with smart solutions. This program identifies the key challenges of urbanization and the environment. The mitigation of these challenges depends on the monitoring and assessment of multiple factors, including demography, education, health, and the environment; however, the inclusion of environmental factors are limited. The monitoring and assessment of environmental factors will continuously generate big data and hence would require scientific and technological innovation for a sustainable management plan. This study identifies six environmental factors, which should be integrated in the development of smart cities. These environmental factors include indicators of landscape and geography, climate, atmospheric pollution, water resources, energy resources, and urban green space as a major component of the environment. This paper also discusses the importance of thes...

SMART CITIES IN INDIA: A SMARTER WAY TO BUILD " NEW INDIA " THROUGH SMART CITIES

“Cities in the 21st century will account for nearly 90% of global population growth, 80% of wealth creation, and 60% of total energy consumption. It is a global imperative to develop systems that improve the livability of cities while dramatically reducing resource consumption.” - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Urbanization in India has historically been viewed as a by-product of failed regional planning. It is only now that it is being realized that it is inevitable. However, the policy and practice surrounding urbanization will only change when the benefits of urbanization overtake the costs involved, it is an opportunity for achieving faster growth. Indian cities will grow faster than those of any other country in the coming years. By 2050, India will add over 400 million urban inhabitants, while China will see an increase of 290 million inhabitants over the same period.8 By 2030, seven Indian cities will have a population of over 10 million; in 2011, only Mumbai and Delhi had populations over 10 million. This amounts to a 37% increase in India’s urban population. Cities will generate over 70% of the GDP and 70% of new jobs by 2030, driving a four-fold growth in per capita incomes nationwide. Indian cities are projected to require 700-900 million square meters of new commercial and residential space by 2030, or the size of a new Chicago every year.9 Overall, 2.5 million square meters of roads and 7,400 kilometers of metros and subways must be added to India’s urban expanses. This is 20 times the capacity that has been added over the last decade.

SMARTER SOLUTIONS FOR DEVELOPING SMART CITIES IN INDIA

The trend of migration of people from rural to urban areas is putting a thrust on the cities throughout the globe. As India's population continues to grow, it is predicted that about 25-30 people will migrate every minute to major cities from rural areas in search of better livelihood and better life style. It is estimated that by the year 2050, the number of people living in Indian cities will touch 843 million. To accommodate this massive urbanization, our country needs to find smarter solutions to manage complexities, reduce expenses, increase efficiency and improve the quality of life. Therefore, the city components viz. engineering (buildings, road network, energy, water and waste management and ICT), administration (governance, education and transportation), health (healthcare facilities and environment) and citizens needs to be smart for developing smart cities. A smart city is one that has digital technology embedded across all its components to enhance performance, to reduce costs and optimize the resources. The concept of a smart city has no end point, but rather a process, or series of steps, by which cities become more livable and resilient and, hence, able to respond quicker to new challenges. In this paper, efforts have been made to elaborate drawbacks of the components of existing cities along with finding smarter solutions to achieve the target of future smart cities in India.

India’s Urban Challenges and Smart Cities: A Contemporary Study

Scholedge International Journal of Business Policy & Governance ISSN 2394-3351

After coming to power in 2014 Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government announced the ambitious programme of building 100 smart cities in India. The idea behind is to rejuvenate the ailing urban system, improve urban infrastructure, quality of life and achieve sustainable and inclusive development besides other things. Tremendous demographic pressure, inadequate infrastructure and resources to cater to the population which runs in billions, unplanned growth of the peri-urban sprawls characterize India's urban environment. Socioeconomic imperatives are the key factors behind the rapid urbanization in India. Livelihood, security and prosperity are some prime movers. Ironically, cities, which on the one hand are considered the growth engines of economy, also attract poverty (socio-economically marginalized population) in large proportion. Consequently posh urban sprawls in Indian cities exist amidst impoverished habitats called slums where the poor inhabitants are condemned to live in subhuman condition. Reconciling growing affluence and abject poverty in cities is a difficult task too. In the backdrop of India's urban challenges this paper seeks to examine some critical issues associated with the development of smart cities to understand: Will smart cities serve India's aspiration or fulfill its urban needs? Can it address the contemporary and future needs of India's urbanization? How will it ensure the participation of the urban stakeholders? How will it ensure social inclusion and finally, whether India needs smart cities or smart urban solutions for sustainable development?

DECIPHERING THE ROLE OF URBAN REGENERATION IN FABRICATING SMART INDIAN CITIES AR.SHAMA PARWEEN

Engineering Sciences International Research Journal, Volume 6, Issue-2, , 2016

As per the World Bank data for year 2015, 33% of Indian population lives in urban areas. Surprisingly, only 63% of this urban population has accessibility to improved sanitation facilities. By 2050, it is projected that, India will have the largest urban population in the world, of 1.6 Billion, followed by china with a population of 1.4 Billion. The adoption of mixed economy post independence resulting in development of public sector undertakings and private sector businesses played a major role in urbanization in India leading to rural urban migration. Hence to strategically accommodate and serve this increasing urban population there is a need of intelligent planning mechanism at both national and regional level which will require equal participation from all the stakeholders. An ideal city is one which has a tight knit urban structure with high density and medium rise buildings with immediate accessibility to key services to its residents via a well adopted public mobility system. The cities need to be adaptive to the changing environment quickly and intelligently and allow its built fabric to be more accommodating and flexible. The concept of smart cities first emerged during the last decade as a fusion of ideas about how information and communication technologies might improve the functioning of cities , enhancing their efficiency, improving their competitiveness and providing new ways in which problems of poverty , social deprivation and poor environment might be addressed. This paper will be discussing in detail how urban regeneration tools like Brownfield development, Infill development, and conservation of urban heritage, up-gradation and modernization of social and physical infrastructure through use of technology can help in making smart cities, with improved energy efficiency and decreasing ecological footprint.

SOME KEY CHALLENGES AND AREAS OF SMART CITIES IN INDIA: CASE STUDY ON ONE OF THE SMART CITY IN TELANGANA STATE

Cities are engines of economic growths, especially for a vast and developing country like India. As per the Census 2011, nearly 31 % of Indian population lives in urban areas and contributes 63 % of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As the population India's shifts to urban territories, policymakers are pressed for answers to overcrowding, pollution, budget limitations, aging infrastructure, resource constraints and the requirement for continuing growth. India has recently committed to the development and construction of 100 Smart Cities to meet the demands of its rapidly growing and urbanizing population. This effort will include construction of new municipalities and renovation of existing cities as the rural population shifts into urban areas. Smart city concept can be used for transforming any city into a smart city. Smart cities have various overwhelming advantages & it a win –win situation for both, government & the citizens. Smart solutions can be helpful in controlling the ever increasing population in the cities. This paper focuses on the concept of Greater Warangal smart city on water, waste water, solid waste management, Health care, Transport as the Government of India launched the smart city project for developing 100 smart cities (now 98 smart cities) in the country and also concentrates on the challenges as well as the key areas for development of smart cities in India along with the case study of Greater Warangal smart city in Telangana State..