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How to make our cities smarter? – Part II

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Managing the on street parking will reduce traffic congestion, increase effective carriage way width available for the vehicles to commute, minimise fuel consumption. Thus we would like to have less traffic congestion on roads.

As we propose to have a safe and sound living with hassle free civic services initiatives like installation of LED lights to ensure pedestrian safety, video surveillance to monitor crime in the city with an effective common control centre to monitor the traffic violations and to ensure efficient on street parking management must be undertaken. Most importantly, these steps will enable citizen’s engagement in all aspects of city functioning. The data sharing or transparency between government and citizens will be a forum for them to understand the functioning of the bureaucracy.

The major and foremost step is the need for setting up disaster management cell. Disasters are inevitable, however human interventions in taking up precautionary measures will help in minimising the loss to a great extent.  Clean and healthy neighbourhood is a blessing in disguise. Solid waste management through smart solutions to make roads clean and to ensure a healthy environment is considered as an important factor for smart cities. Recycling of waste will produce renewable energy, ensures safe disposal of solid waste, prevents soil and environmental pollution and reduces depletion of resources.

There is a need for easy access to all basic infrastructure with best quality cent per cent efficiency. Making the city beautiful is of foremost importance. Cities are focusing on developing more lung spaces for citizens.  As part of smart city initiatives, components like cycling, street furniture, jogging track, space for hawkers etc., will contribute a lot in enhancing aesthetic of the city. Green spaces will get a new dimension with new soft and hard landscape with WI-fi hot spots, which will be an interesting sport for citizens to relax, exercise and interact. It also plays a major role in creating a healthy and sustained environment.

Now it is time to make sure that the city is clean and green to give the much needed ambiance required for setting up a smart city.  The administration will have to take up the additional responsibility of providing quality education, dependable power supply, health consciousness, e-governance, affordable housing for poor, water supply and several other sectors would be the centre of focus under the project. Smart city tag will bring cheers to the citizens of the country and we dream of becoming a place to behold in the world.

(The views expressed by the author in the article are his/her own.)

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