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Analyse the feasibility of ‘Smart Towns’ Development in India.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Settlements

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A smart town in the Indian formulation is a core infrastructure package — assured water and power, sanitation, mobility, e-governance — run through sensor-based utility management on an integrated platform; the lineage is Ebenezer Howard's planned new town with ICT in place of the greenbelt.

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  • Technical feasibility — high, and not the constraint
  • Financial feasibility — the binding constraint
  • Institutional and capacity feasibility — low
  • Land feasibility — where the two variants part company
  • Social feasibility — contested
  • The verdict the intervening decade has delivered
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