Smart City

India’s urban schemes faltered due to top-down approaches, sidelining local governments. Empowering municipalities with funds, authority, and planning capacity is crucial for inclusive, sustainable, and locally responsive urban development

Smart City Mission — A smart move that needs to be smarter

The central scheme to make 100 cities smart has ended but there are unfinished tasks left

NEC Corp India launches smart city tech products ‘to manage operations efficiently’

NEC Corp. India, an IT and network technologies firm, on February 13 announced the launch of Advanced Smart City Tech Products for “organisations and authorities to manage operations efficiently”

India has showed how scientific research can be used in every sector: Jitendra Singh

He added that whether it is the roads, railways, Smart City project, digital health, deep sea exploration, groundwater mapping, or crop imaging, the applications of science and technology are quite visible to all.

2023 G20 Summit: Needed, a smart city for our hard-working politicians

There is precedence for this - many countries have seen the wisdom of taking their rulers far away from the folks they rule.

AI’s role in smart city and urban development: Opportunities and challenges

Smart city systems enabled by AI can collect and analyse data from a vast array of municipal services to address various issues, including traffic congestion and criminality.

Smart Cities Mission: First 22 cities to be ready by next month

In the remaining 78 cities selected under the mission, the ongoing projects will be completed in the next three-four months

What is the future of digital infrastructure under the Smart Cities Mission?

Since the urban local bodies play a decisive role in planning, provision, and delivery of services, the digital infrastructure created under the Smart Cities Mission should be handed over to them

Let’s not wait for the next urban disaster to address municipal inequity

Indian cities vary enormously in size, fiscal capacity, and regional context. Finding a single template solution is difficult, beyond emphasising the common lacuna, that incomplete democratisation has sapped cities of the vitality they possess 

Urban Governance Index | Why Indian cities need better governance

The Urban Governance Index can be a road map to better managed, more inclusive and sustainable cities if citizens and governments engage with it

Toyota, NTT to invest in each other in smart city tie-up: Report

Toyota Motor Corp and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp will form a capital tie-up to work together in smart-city development, making large investments in each other, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported on Tuesday.

PM's constituency Varanasi among 20 best performing Smart Cities to guide 'laggard' ones

The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has paired up 20 best performing cities with the 20 bottom cities and they will work as "sister cities".

Tech Mahindra bags Rs 500cr smart city project from Pune's PCMC

Through this project, Tech Mahindra will engage with more than 15 lakh citizens of PCMC in Pune district by enabling technology-led transformation to convert it into a smart and sustainable city.

Gurugram-based firm M3M signs MoU with Swedish firm to develop climate neutral smart city

The mixed use development spread across 165 acres has the potential to attract foreign investment of $2 billion.

Policy | Govt must treat Indian Tech as partners

New Delhi should shed its paternalistic way of looking at Bengaluru and Gurugram. After all India’s IT sector has led the biggest wealth creation in the history of our country.

Modi launches first greenfield smart industrial city Auric

The mega project in the parched region of Marathawada region of Maharashtra is part of the upcoming Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor

The reality of Indian realty: Things may not be actually that bad

A turnaround in fortunes for real estate is only a question of time. What explains this optimism is rising transparency and discipline in property dealings.

Piramal, Ivanhoe Cambridge to invest Rs 500 crore in Lodha's Palava City

Palava City is an integrated smart city near Mumbai, with over 4,500 acres of land being developed across different phases.

Opinion | Wanted: A ban on poll promises by politicians that offer no details

Congress President Rahul Gandhi says his party would roll out guaranteed minimum income for the poor if it comes back to power. Such promises, in the absence of details, can be dangerous.

33% of 5,151 Smart City projects completed: Report

The 100 selected ‘smart cities’ include projects worth Rs 2.05 lakh crore in their proposals

Bhubaneswar Art Trail: Residents open doors to house works of artists from across the globe

The Bhubaneswar Art Trail which is a public art exhibition features contemporary artists from Germany, France, Switzerland-USA, and India.

How renaming Allahabad helped designer come up with a wholesome logo for Prayagraj smart city

"Initially, a logo was created with the letter 'A' (for Allahabad) showing a confluence of two rivers -- the Ganga and the Yamuna. The logo was in final phase awaiting approval when the news of the city getting a name-change appeared, and I had to start afresh," said Abhinav Basak, an IIT Kanpur PhD scholar researching Visual Ergonomics of Graphical User Interface, who had also submitted his entry.

Singapore's Surbana Jurong wins Pimpri Chinchwad smart city contract

The project was awarded to international consultants KPMG, in partnership with Surbana Jurong, by Pimpri Chinchwad Smart City Limited, a special purpose vehicle set up at the Pimpri Chinchwad city level to implement its smart city mission.

Nearly 6,000 delegates likely to attend Smart City Expo in Rajasthan

Gupta said the Expo will be organised from September 26 to 28, in which nearly 6,000 delegates from different countries are likely to participate.

ABB: Earnings visibility well captured in valuation

The management expects projects from Power Grid to slowdown but at the same time is hopeful of fresh orders from state utilities and transmission.