SMART CITIES OR

SMART VILLAGES -
WHAT DO WE NEED?
 An Insight Into
Smart Cities
What Are Smart Cities? Why Do We Need Smart Cities?

A smart city is an intelligent city that integrates Good infrastructure 

digital technologies into its networks, services
and infrastructure. Promotes development
 It means smart “urban” transportation networks, Housing for All
upgraded water supply and waste disposal facilities
and more efficient ways to light and heat buildings. Provides employment

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 Concept Of
Smart Villages

╸ The basic concept of smart village is to collect community

efforts and strength of people from various streams and integrate
it with information technology to provide benefits to the rural
community.
╸ Smart Villages enable the provision of good education,
healthcare, access to clean water, sanitation and nutrition.

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Bangalore – A
Case Study
Bangalore is widely regarded as the “Silicon Valley
of India” because of its role as the nation's
leading IT exporter.
Bangalore Smart City has both area-based and
pan-city development projects. They are about
road construction, retrofitting of buildings, transit
hubs, market development, command and control
centers, and lake development.
Just 23% of the smart city projects have been
completed so far. However, according to Vinayak
Sugur, there are no projects in tendering stage and
all the ongoing projects are works in progress.

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A Comparative
Analysis - Dharnai
Dharnai is the first village in India to be fully solar
powered.
It allows children to study even beyond the daylight
hours and lifts the restriction on women to cook before
it is dark. Moreover, women in Dharnai can now venture
out after it is dark due to the street lights.
Residents of Dharnai had been using diesel-based
generators and hazardous fuel like cow dung to meet the
electricity requirement for decades, which were both
costly and unhealthy. Since the launch of Greenpeace’s
solar-powered 100 kilowatt micro-grid in 2014, quality
electricity is being provided to more than 2,400 people
living in this village in Jehanabad district.

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“ “To remove poverty
.we have to

strengthen the poor.

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Overall Decrease In Poverty
And Increase In
Development

╸ About 70 per cent Indians live in rural areas: 2011 Census report
╸ For ‘inclusive’ development, the Government must focus on
them. 
╸ We must give top priority to the development of ‘smart villages’
— preserving the sustainability of villages will positively impact
cities in the long run.

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  78,000,000
of all domestic migrants, move from rural to urban India, main reason being lack of
amenities and opportunities.

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 Controlling
Overcrowding In Cities

 Numerous examples from all over the world confirm that

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overcrowding in cities brings about some severe environmental
problems, like pollution.
 Pollution in turn causes serious illnesses amongst people.
 If the concept of smart villages is focused upon, overcrowding in
cities can be reduced as the people will get all the necessary facilities
in the village itself.

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 Reducing
Environmental Harm

 Unwanted technological saturation in cities will increase standards

but degrade the environment.
 Whereas, in villages, where there is a dire need of technological
advancements, they will prove to be beneficial for all.
 There will be increase in contribution to global environment instead
of the opposite happening.

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 Smart Villages Are
Need Of The Hour
From this, it can be concluded that Smart
Cities can bring improvement if done
properly.
However, in creating an economic
balance, it is necessary to focus on
creation of Smart Villages to foster overall
growth and development.

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Thank You
!
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