Smart Cities mission

• Launched 2015 to improve ease of living of citizens and create cities that are ahead in decision making and problem solving 
• Defined as an urban reg that is highly advanced in terms of overall infra ,sustainable real estate, communications and market viability 

Features 

• Area based development 
• City improvement retrofitting 
• City renewal redevelopment 
• City extension green field 
• Pan city initiative 
• Implementation at city level by special purpose vehicle SPV 
• Operated as Centrally sponsored scheme and govt provide 48000 cr for 5 yrs 
• Smart City Centre-Integrated command and control centre IC4 in every city function as city's nervous system where digital tech integrates with social, physical, environmental aspects to enable Centralised monitoring and decision making - internet of things 
• Focus: On sustainable and inclusive development
• Strategy:
• Pan-city initiative in which at least one Smart Solution is applied city-wide.
• Develop areas step-by-step with the help of these three models:
• Retrofitting.
• Redevelopment.
• Greenfield.
• Achievements of SCM
• Completion of projects increased 
• Est of smart city centre 
• Improvement in urban landscape 
• Boost to start up industry 
• Successful completion in Rajkot,Pune,Ahmedabad,Bhopal 

Issues 

• Inadequate private participation as till now only 15% projects under PPP 
• Increasing inequality among cities as focus on Area Based dev model 
• Increasing focus on limited central aspects of smart cities like transportation, energy and ecology infringing other sections IT, culture,governance etc 
• Recentralisation of power as increasing role of SPV encroaching function of ULB 
• Many of the projects undertaken are behind schedule. MoH&UA of the 5,151 smart city projects, only 1,638 projects have been completed.
• Unavailability of digital master plan or a digital strategy and roadmap.
• Non-availability of skilled human resources to handle various functional domains.
• Financing smart cities and financial sustainability of ULBs
• Lack of focus on Public health

As Indian cities face an unprecedented challenge, it is important to get the priorities of urban development right and invest in programmes that improve the health and livelihoods of its residents.

Indian Urban Data Exchange 

• research project under smart cities mission by MoHUA with IISc, Bengaluru.
• expanded, eventually leading to a “marketplace” cover 500 cities by 2022 and all urban centres in the country by 2024.
• IUDX will be an open source software platform for cities, industry and researchers to share Smart City data with each other that could be monetised in the future, similar to the UPI for bank accounts and digital payments.open data platform for the 100 cities of the Smart Cities Mission by 2020 to make a wide range of data — from health, education to finances, public by 2024
• facilitate secure, authenticated and managed exchange of data amongst various data platforms, third-party authenticated and authorized applications and other data sources, data producers and consumers, both within a city to begin with and scaled up across cities eventually at a national level, in a uniform and seamless way.

India Urban Observatory 

• DataSmart Cities strategy that envisions creating a ‘Culture of Data’ in cities, for intelligent use of data in addressing complex urban challenges.
• Making cities ‘DataSmart’ to realise full potential of technology interventions and innovation ecosystems in cities.
• allows cities to open their data to public view, such as number of hospitals, gardens, people, public toilets and other city management
• separate portal for Smart Cities under the data.gov website.

Nurturing Neighbourhood Challenge

Niti aayog strategy @75

Way Forward

• mainstream the resilient cities approach in line with SDG 11
• Environment sustainability recognized as a distinct goal and measured as service levels.
• Data observatories in urban centers serve as a decision support mechanism for policy makers and to engage citizens.
• Single-window facility for the urban poor to access basic services