The mantra of Atmanirbhar Bharat is “healthy individual, healthy society, healthy economy” and the objectives of Smart Cities Mission is in consonance with these three mantras. Cities around the world have faced the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic posed many risks to the millions who live in dense megacities, whether in developed or developing nations. The sheer density of the population of these cities provides an ideal environment for infections to erupt. However, density by itself need not be the only vulnerability. While cities like Mumbai, New York and London have reported staggering rates of infection and other dense cities like Singapore, Seoul and Hong Kong have managed to keep the worst of the virus at bay. In India, we all know that the projects developed under the Smart Cities Mission have been very useful, in these testing times of COVID-19.
In the post pandemic world, the needs of urban India are changing. There are multiple dimensions, which demand the attention like environment, economy, public health, education, safety and surveillance, public transport systems and much more. The longer the pandemic rages on, the more important becomes the question of how we live and grow in urban conglomerations.
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