The Smart City Mission aims to develop urban areas with essential infrastructure, quality of life, and sustainable environments through smart solutions and public-private partnerships. By 2030, urbanization in India will increase significantly, with cities contributing to 75% of the national GDP, necessitating innovative urban planning strategies. The mission focuses on 100 cities over five years, with an allocated budget of Rs 98,000 crore to enhance urban infrastructure and governance through advanced technology.

1. Smart Cities-Road Ahead
Prof R.R. Sharma

2. Smart city Mission
• To promote cities that provide
– Core infrastructure
– Decent quality of life to its citizens
– A clean, inclusive and sustainable environment
– Application of ‘Smart’ Solutions- optimally tap into
digital and information technologies
– Urban planning best practices
– Public-private partnerships
– Positive policy changes.

3. Need for Smart cities
• Cities are engines of growth for
the economy.
• Center of economic activity,
opportunities and aspirations,
causing migration from
neighboring towns and cities.
• By 2030, top 3 cities in India
will be size of some countries
today.
• The next 6 cities will become 2-
4X of what Mumbai is today.
• Cities are likely to inhabit 40%
of India’s population by 2030.

4. • Contribution nearly 75% of the
national GDP in the next 15 years.
• As per global experience, a
country’s urbanization beyond
30% happens at a much faster
pace till it reaches about 60-65%.
• The speed of urbanization will
exert immense pressure on the
urban infrastructure, urban
finance, natural resources, quality
of urban life etc.
Need for Smart cities

5. Smart City = Core Infrastructure Delivery + Smart Applications

6. Smart City = Core Infrastructure Delivery + Smart Applications

7. Strategy for building Smart Cities
The mission shall be implemented through area-based and pan-city developments.
Area based developments-
• Retrofitting - includes transformation of existing built-up areas through more intensive
infrastructure services and smart applications (e.g. city centers and central zones).
• Redevelopment-replacement of existing built-up environments to enable co-creation of
new layouts with better infrastructure and land-use (e.g. redevelopment of slums).
• Greenfield -introduce smart solutions to the cities through innovation planning, financial
planning and implementation planning tools to accommodate expanding populations (e.g.
Industrial and Technology Parks and clusters, such as the Gujarat International Finance Tec-
City (GIFT City) in Gujarat.
Pan -city developments
• To enable the application of identified smart solutions to existing infrastructure across the
cities.
• The application would leverage state-of-the-art Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) tools to improve the living conditions & Improvement of governance. (E.g.
intelligent traffic management systems, waste water recycling, smart metering, etc.).

8. Coverage
• The Smart cities mission will cover 100
cities
• Duration will be five years (FY2015-16 to
FY2019-20).
• The government has allocated an outlay
of Rs 98,000 crore (US$ 15,329.26
million) to execute 100 smart cities, and
the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and
Urban Transformation (AMRUT), which is
an urban rejuvenation program for 500
towns and cities in next 5 years.