Missions of Modi Govt
I am frankly very concerned with all the Missions of Modi Govt. The Govt hasnt gotten most of them right so far with may be exception of Jan Dhan and slightly Swachh Bharat.
Looking at this Smart Cities one lately. If things go the way they are going it will become a bubble that will burst and create more issues for the Govt then help them next election. High expectations are being set by Mayors/MCs and Media too and with current state of Indians cities, the focus needs to be on air water, good education, roads and delivery from ULBs not wi-fi and internet of things and what not.
Please have a national discussion on how this whole smart cities should work because otherwise when the 1 year poll of smart city is done by local circle, you will get 0% Say their city has become any smarter with many saying worse.
I would like everyone to constructively comment on this so the same can be shared with powers who cane affect change.
Jai Hind more
Looking at this Smart Cities one lately. If things go the way they are going it will become a bubble that will burst and create more issues for the Govt then help them next election. High expectations are being set by Mayors/MCs and Media too and with current state of Indians cities, the focus needs to be on air water, good education, roads and delivery from ULBs not wi-fi and internet of things and what not.
Please have a national discussion on how this whole smart cities should work because otherwise when the 1 year poll of smart city is done by local circle, you will get 0% Say their city has become any smarter with many saying worse.
I would like everyone to constructively comment on this so the same can be shared with powers who cane affect change.
Jai Hind more
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I totally disagree with the view of Mr Rajesh Suri. 68 years of cong Raj has made us lazy, lethargic, Dissulsioned and highly complacent. First, we have to set goal totally different from conventional approach and work towards that. China was much worse than us till 2 or 3 decades back and thanks to Nehru family, we are still rotting, while China has progressed in leaps and bounds. Though a communist country, it adopted capitalist means to get development. Second, Modi Govt started from bankrupt treasury, full of scam, corruption, and indifferent secretaries, cong trying put spokes, trying to create communal violence to retard progress. Cong kept country industrially backward, purposely ruined education. Under these circumstances, Modi govt's achievement in 15 months is remarkable by any standard. The investment initiative, plugging corruption, making IAS officers to come on time, get committed to progress will all show results shortly more
Oct 16
Smart cities might give good look to India in the outside world. But think the place chosen for the smart cities are already developed cities or undeveloped places in states like Bihar which is shown to the outer world that the people are not educated, employed and lot more. For most things is that in the smart city plan they have showed good road atmosphere and also big buildings. What the big buildings will contain. If it is the apartment then what will be the rate of it. When the place is undeveloped and the builder fixes a rate of a well developed city then profit will be more to the builder and think about the common people how can they buy it. When it comes to big companies then there will be employment value or the production will be more by using machines. Man power oriented companies or machine oriented companies?????? more
Oct 13
I think Mr. Rajesh Suri is entitled to have his own opinion. But to me efforts are being made first time since independence to have a system which really caters to the people of this country. Definitely as expected the results may take some time to be visible, because lot of mess have been created in the system during the 46 years of rule by a party who has lost the last general election. more
Oct 13
Smart City as a concept and plan is totally unnecessary. First Modi should come up with a plan to improve and de-congest existing cities like Mumbai,Bengaluru and then talk of smart cities. Smart Cities does not mean fancy buildings and wi-fi. it means smart citizens too. 60% of our citizens do not have civic sense or traffic sense. With such people, smart city will be up in smoke. Example: Navi Mumbai more
Oct 12
