The pandemic has provided a remarkable opportunity for the development of towns inclusively beside smart cities. Elaborate (200 Words)
Refer - The Hindu
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Ajitha P 3 years
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IAS Parliament 3 years
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KEY POINTS
· Globally, there is no uniform definition of smart cities, and the most common features of such urban spaces are derived from concepts in the global north.
· When the Smart City Awards 2020 were declared recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs gave one component of the scheme, the Integrated Command and Control Centres (ICCCs), a health focus.
· These centres, of which 70 are operational, functioned as “war rooms” for COVID-19.
· Over the years, Smart Cities Mission projects converged with other infrastructure programmes such as AMRUT, the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, the PMAY (Urban), the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, for housing.
· For citizens, real time control rooms can be meaningful only if they can have a good public dashboard of information.
· Democratising smart cities planning has to ensure every section of society has a voice in the process, and not merely those who have digital access.
· The Housing Ministry said last year that it had no plan to issue a report card for the 100 chosen smart cities, but was using the Ease of Living Index measured through a public perception survey. Such measurements can be heavily biased if they are not broad based.
· It is necessary to steer the course of hundreds of other towns that are not on the map.
ANIL KUMAR RAM 3 years
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