SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES: CONCEPT, CHALLENGES AND REALIZATION
Keywords:
Smart cities, Urbanization, Concept, Challenges, RealizationAbstract
In recent years migration from the rural areas to the major city centres has been growing exponentially
stressing the infrastructure on already burdened metropolis resources. To alleviate these challenges lawmakers and
industrial leaders have been scrambling to devise smart technologies solutions so the effect of massive population
pressure coupled with uncontrolled migration and worsening availability of resources will not be faced by the coming
generations. Aiming this “The Smart Cities Mission” has been launched by the Government of India, to produce 100
smart cities in the country for a better future. In the present paper, various challenges and the effective means for
realizationof the concept of smart cities has been discussed.