Smart City of India - Delhi to be the First

Delhi will get the country’s first “smart city,” a truly global city, hav­ing all the latest and mod­ern amen­it­ies, and facil­it­ies that any other global city like London or San Francisco has. It will have world-class enter­tain­ment ven­ues like Disneyland or Universal Studios here.

Delhi would be the first smart city under Narendra Modi-led government’s plans to set up 100 such cit­ies across the country. The announce­ment came dur­ing an event organ­ized by the Delhi Development Authority. 

 DDA Vice Chairman Balvinder Kumar out­lined the plans for the smart city. The smart city would be a com­plete sub-city, which would be loc­ated in an area of 20 – 24 hec­tares, zoned out of Dwarka, Rohini and Narela, and will be equipped with latest tech­no­lo­gies and waste-management techniques. The smart city will have world-class infra­struc­ture, 24-hour power sup­ply, com­plete Wi-fi con­nectiv­ity, and employ green tech­no­logy and latest water con­ser­va­tion tech­niques like rain-harvesting and waste man­age­ment tech­niques, Kumar said.“Delhi is the heart of India and the first smart city would come up here. The city of Barcelona in Spain has also prom­ised tech­no­lo­gical sup­port to us in our effort in this dir­ec­tion,” Naidu said.“I saw the city of Barcelona, and apart from mod­ern build­ings, they have also pre­served their old archi­tec­ture. We also want to pre­serve our tra­di­tional archi­tec­ture that India is so richly endowed with, even as we embrace modernity.”

Source: India West