Smart Cities Roll Out Plan on Track
India is at the cusp of urbanization development and the country is moving ahead on innovative and sustainable solutions. It is indeed heartening to see that India is embracing the global best practices in the management of its cities. The rollout of the Smart City initiative is a welcome step in this direction.
Since a Smart City initiative in any city would entail a host of sub components including transportation, responsive public services, infrastructure for employment, ICT, etc, it would be beyond the scope of any one organization to deliver seamlessly across these requirements
It is this context the National Mission on Smart Cities is creating an industry-led consortia, which could render the full range of services for the development of a Smart City, in which Hitachi India Ltd and Siemens Ltd have consented to be the lead industry partner for the Japanese and German consortium.