While India is pitching itself arsenic a planetary exertion hub, its cities proceed to conflict to conscionable the rapidly increasing demands of citizens. The challenges earlier Indian cities are ramping up with each passing year. The scope of these challenges is besides increasing: From adequately providing basal amenities specified arsenic water, electricity, discarded disposal to efficiently solving for lodging and proscription to containing emissions, dealing with clime alteration and managing inequality.
The cardinal question is: How tin exertion amended India’s urbanisation?
According to the Smart Cities inaugural by the nationalist government, Ahmedabad was ranked the sixth champion among each states successful 2016. It has introduced respective technology-driven solutions ranging from transit management, metropolis surveillance, e-governance, Integrated Command and Control Centres, integer payments successful utilities.
What tin Indian cities larn from the Ahmedabad experience? What benignant of solutions tin exertion provide? How tin policymakers leverage exertion to find solutions to India’s urbanisation challenges? These volition beryllium immoderate cardinal questions discussed successful the 5th variation of The Indian Express’s THINC: CITIES seminar series, presented by Omidyar Network India, to beryllium organised successful Ahmedabad connected Tuesday.
The seminar volition diagnostic a keynote code by Keshav Varma, Chairman, High-Level Committee connected Urban Planning of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. It volition beryllium followed by a sheet treatment connected however Indian cities tin leverage exertion to amended urbanisation.
The sheet of experts volition diagnostic Jagan Shah (CEO, The Infravision Foundation and erstwhile Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs), Saswat Bandyopadhyay (Professor, Faculty of Planning and Project Director, CUPP, CEPT University), Shalini Agrawal (Municipal Commissioner, Surat), and Anupamkumar Singh (Dean, Academics, Professor, Civil & Infrastructure Engineering, Adani University).
The seminar volition beryllium moderated by Udit Misra, Associate Editor, The Indian Express.