The Smart Cities Mission of India: An Integral Part of Globalization

Abstract

The conceptualization of smart-city varies from city to city and country to country, depend upon the level of development, willingness to change and reform, resources and aspirations of the city residents. In this context, a ‘New Town’ concept which came up a long ago took cognizance’ of inherent nature of things and tried to overcome urban decay by creating new planned settlements far away from big-metropolitan cities so that the population aggregation at one place could be arrested and balance distribution could be achieved. It was believed that this would over the time help in building new committees and helps the parent metropolis to remain healthy and survive longer with long lasting sustainability. Regional development become a new era of interest and practice. The present paper is aimed at evaluating the ‘Strength’, Weakness,’ Opportunity’ and Threats’ of the ‘Smart cities Mission’ to be achieved in the forthcoming years in India. It is expected to pave the way to new era of urbanization in India in accordance with changing global scenario.