Smart cities in India: A smarter solution for a better tomorrow

Making a city "smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Yet little academic research has sparingly discussed the phenomenon. To close the gap in the literature about smart cities and in response to the increasing use of the concept, this paper proposes a framework to understand the concept of smart cities. Various factors or components are discussed which are inevitable to make a city ‘smart’. This paper also identifies the problems of traditional urban cities and their possible solutions with the help of ICT. This paper principally focuses on the smarter solutions of smart city for making our India better.