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Gurugram: Challenges on Being a Smart City-A Review

Inderjeet Kaur*, Jassi Kushwaha, Aaquib Khan

Urbanisation is accelerating across the India as result of modernisation and economic opportunity. One of the major components of urbanisation is progressive migration of people from rural to urban areas. In next 30 years, the population of India is predicted to be doubled up. Looking at the faster rate of evolution poses a big infrastructure challenge for developing cities to provide housing and urban infrastructure with safe drinking water, sanitation, functioning sewerage, transportation, etc., to the migrant population flocking in. To promote urban infrastructure Government has come with an initiative of smart cities mission to build 100 smart cities all over the country. And the number is expected to grow further. Lying to the south of Delhi in Haryana State, the city Gurugram also known as ‘Singapore of India’ and a city favoured by expats, mostly working for multinational companies anticipates to be smart city. In May, 2016 Gurugram missed the list of smart cities. The city of boomtown of millions has brought in its wake concerns around sustainability. The several reasons like lack in functioning citywide sewer or drainage system, safe drinking water, proper disposal of solid waste, C and D waste management and environmental concerns like air pollution are blamed for the city not making smart city shortlist. As many efforts are being made by the respective government bodies to achieve the objective of overcoming these challenges and to make Gurugram a smart city. The focus of the study being made through this paper is to provide an overview of existing challenges faced by millennium Gurugram city. This paper outlines major issues and attempts to provide possible solutions for the management of above said challenges on sustainable basis.