smart city

Once hit by a deadly plague, Surat is now India’s cleanest city. With smart tech, community effort, and a Rs 500 crore waste economy, it shows how cleanliness can become a habit.

Aditi Garg, CEO at Indore Smart City Development Limited tells us about her pioneering feat to earn from carbon credits from three eco-friendly projects that mitigated 1.7 lakh tonnes of carbon

"When we put forth the new system, bigwigs and defaulters tried to exercise their power. But we adopted a no-holds-barred approach to serve justice, shutting down esteemed establishments and naming the defaulters in the media." #IAS #GoodGovernance

The central idea was to have a citizen force that collected plastic waste from multiple sources in their neighborhoods – homes, shops, etc.

You can't tell the story of modern Chandigarh without Urmila Eulie Chowdhury. And it is a story that needs to be told. #FirstWomen #Pioneer

These three cities, with their plans, are surely a path to the future - where every city in India can be of a standard that we are all proud of.

Unlike many leading metros that continue to grapple with issues of overflowing public dump yards, exhausted landfills and foul air, the diamond city has installed 43 underground garbage bins to manage its waste.

Even in well-developed cities like Mumbai and Bengaluru, driving on good quality roads for long stretches or walking on well-maintained footpaths seems almost like a myth.

To help its senior citizens fight loneliness, the state capital is using an innovative project called 'Bapu ki Kutiya.'

These state-of-the-art features can not only help Amaravati become a world-class capital, they may well become a template for India’s 100 smart cities project.