Critical assessment of smart city mission-a research of gwalior smart city proposals

Abstract

Smart city mission aims to promote the quality life in Indian cities and for that cities were selected from entire India. All the smart cities needed to make a smart city proposal (SCP) for further selection. Gwalior is being selected to be one of the smart cities in 100 Indian cities. Gwalior is a city in Madhya Pradesh and had a strong link to the region glorious past, as this is the one of oldest center in region (as per the current footprints). Because of fast urbanization rate the current condition shows urban decay due to lacking in core infrastructural element in almost most all the Indian cities, Gwalior is also going through same issue. The paper aims to identify the various unexplored aspects that were not considered and not taken care of in the current SCP. This research work will be started with the understanding of the concept by analyzing the guidelines of the smart city mission and comparative study/analysis of smart city global module(international modules on smart city), the entire research work will focus to identify the gaps between need of the city and smart city proposal.