Smart City indicators are here,
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Draft Standards for Smart Cities in India,
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This document lists many indicators with benchmarks to achieve good governance, availability of services, inclusiveness, sustainability, etc. One can appreciate the indicators for their simplicity but whether indicators are adequate enough? For examples,
A city should be monitored for how much its growth affects environment of other cities and villages. Indicators like 'Renewable Energy Indicators' does not tell us whether renewable energy is produced within city or somewhere else by acquiring fertile farmland for this purpose. These indicators don't show adequately how a city exploits other regions for its selfishness. For state capitals better to add indicators of entire state itself so to check how much responsibility it has taken to develop entire state or whether it is self-centered & non-inclusive.
Moreover cities are not developed only for serving people staying within city but also whole range of villages and small cities surrounding it. A city has to take responsibility for a huge region around it as everyone in this region has contributed to the initial growth of this city by paying tax. So, some of indicators like health indicators like 'Average response time in case of health emergencies' should include entire rural area coming under city's purview as city is providing health services to these areas. Even educational, economy & employment, electricity, etc indicators should reflect properly rural area expectations from a city. A city is useless unless it serves & uplifts area surrounding it. A state capital city is useless unless it develops entire state. These type of cities can be called a gated community where lesser privileged people staying out side the city wall just waiting to jump in to the city and cause chaos in city and also across the state.
Value of indicators like 'Percentage of plots with rainwater harvesting facility' can be 100% even if every plot/house stores 1000 liters of rainwater. In reality city should have enough water for non-rainy seasons and also in a few cases for next drought year.
In conclusion, the indicators are good enough to begin with. But needs more sophistication for future.