Opinion
It All Starts With You
There is a symbiotic relationship between safer cities and the community with one nurturing the other to alleviate societies’ vulnerabilities to crime and insecurity
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Partnering for Success
The government must assure investors and partners about the commercial viability of their Smart City investments to successfully address funding gaps and implementation hurdles
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Change on two wheels
A bicycle is no longer a poor man’s ride. Alternative mobility solutions like cycling are gaining ground in India and are a growing part of the urban Indian’s daily activity
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Time to Warm Up to the Sun - An interview with Shekhar Dutt
BWSC caught up with Shekhar Dutt, Director-General - SPDA, a retired IAS officer and former Governor of Chhattisgarh, to get his views on smart cities, solar power and the need to optimise the use of precious natural resources
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Securing Smart Cities
Examples of innovative policing from across the country offer ideas that need to be woven into a new, integrated approach to tackle old crimes and new threats
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Smart Municipalities for Smart Cities
The entire approach and philosophy underlying the governance and management aspects of the recently-announced Mission should aim at strengthening local governance systems instead of weakening them
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An Urban Vision for our Cities: Integrated Townships
Promoting integrated townships as greener, self-sustaining hubs can help alleviate many of our city woes
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Smart is also Innovative
Unlike traditional, spatially-isolated suburban business hubs and research facilities, investments in smart cities can be leveraged to strategically create urban innovation centres
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Driven by Integration
Smart City leaders will need to identify every single rupee available in central and state government schemes to optimise funding and combine solutions that can help deliver the best results
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Windows to the World
Being bustling cosmopolitan hubs of trade and cultural activity, ports have long been drivers of economic growth. The Smart Cities Mission offers new hope to these urban centres
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