Developing 100 smart cities in India is an ambitious project of new NDA led government in India which has started taking shape in forms of research, surveys and planning. The Indian government has identified several cities across India which will be built as Smart Cities.
However, many are aware about the project but most do not have any idea about what a smart city is? How it would be different? However we all can assume that a smart city will have better infrastructure in terms of transport facilities, water and sanitation, electricity distribution, commercial complexes and other utility facilities. But the question is how much better? There is no definition of the word better; it has to be quantified in order to make it more meaningful and understandable. So here, bringing you the most important and quantifiable benchmarks that will define a city as Smart City.
Transport
- A smart city will have a transport infrastructure to allow commuters to travel through the small and medium size city within 30 minutes and metropolitan area within 45 minutes.
- There will be continuous unobstructed footpath of minimum 2 meter wide on either side of a road with 12 meter or more width.
- The streets with more than 10 meter wide with carriageway will have dedicated and physically segregated bicycle tracks of 2 meter width or more, one in each direction.
Water Supply
- 24×7 water supply and 100% households with direct water supply connections.
- 135 liters of water supply per capita with 100% metering of water connections and 100% efficiency in collection of water related charges.
Sewerage and Sanitation
- 100% households with toilets, 100% schools with separate toilets for girls.
- 100% houses to be connected to waste water network with 100% efficiency in collection and treatment of waste water.
Solid Waste Management
- 100% households connected with daily doorstep waste collection system.
- 100% recycling of waste with 100% segregation of waste at source.
- 100% collection of municipal solid waste
A smart city will report aggregate 0 number of water logging cases per year with the help of 100% coverage of road network with storm water drainage system and 100% rain water harvesting.
Electricity
- 24×7 supply to 100% households with 100% metering.
- Tariff slabs for minimizing the electricity waste with 100% recovery of cost.
Connectivity
- 100% households with telephone connections including mobile.
- 100% of city with wi-fi connectivity and broadband speed of up to 100 MBPS.
Healthcare
- Telemedicine facility for 100% residents with maximum 30 minutes of emergency response time.
- 1 Dispensary for every 15,000 residents and 1 dispensary for pet for every 1 lakh residents.
- Nursing home, child welfare and maternity center of 25-30 beds, intermediate hospital (Category B) of 80 beds, intermediate hospital (Category B) of 200 beds, multi-Specialty hospital (200 beds), specialty hospital (200 beds) and a general hospital of up to 500 beds per Lakh of population.
- 1 diagnostic center for every 50,000 residents.
- 1 veterinary hospital for every 5 Lakh residents.
Education
- 1 senior secondary school (Class VI to XII) for every 7,500 residents and 1 integrated school (Class I to XII) for every Lakh of population.
- 1 School for physically challenged for every 45,000 residents and 1 school for mentally challenged every 10 Lakh population.
- 1 College per 1.25 lakh population.
- 1 University, 1 technical education center, 1 engineering college, 1 medical college, 1 professional college and one paramedical instate for every 10 lakh population.
Other than the above, a smart city will also have 1 fire station for every 2 lakh of population or within every 5-7 kilometers of radius and 1 sub-fire station in 3-4 kilometer radius.
Other facilities that will be the part of a smart city are use of renewable energy in all sectors, rooftop solar panels on all public, commercial, and institutional buildings, adherence to green building norms, common ducting for all services, 3D maps on GIS of all services including power, water and sewerage. A smart city will also formulate defined building and parking standards.
So, this is majorly what a smart city will have and the city will be built upon four pillars of Institutional, Physical, Social and Economic infrastructure.
I think almost covered in making of a smart city, let us know in the comments what else would you like to include in your kind of smart city?
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