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2. An Overview of the Smart Cities Mission in India
- Author:
- Ashwathy Anand, Ajai Sreevatsan, and Persis Taraporevala
- Publication Date:
- 08-2018
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Centre for Policy Research, India
- Abstract:
- The newly elected federal Government of India (GoI) launched the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) in 2015 with the stated purpose of improving the governance and infrastructural deficiencies that plague Indian cities. The Mission categorically states that there is no one definition of a 'smart city' and implies infinite liberty for cities to self-define their understanding of 'smartness'. Towards demystifying the Mission, the researchers utilised government documentation from the 99 cities to answer one question-What constitutes a smart city in India.
- Topic:
- Development, Government, Urbanization, and Social Policy
- Political Geography:
- South Asia, India, and Asia
3. The Rupee's Reach: The Lending Curve of India's Development Diplomacy
- Author:
- Nimmi Kurian
- Publication Date:
- 02-2017
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Centre for Policy Research, India
- Abstract:
- India’s transition from being a recipient of aid to a donor makes for a feel-good story. The policy brief questions this rose-tinted rhetoric and argues that there is an urgent need to map and systematise the diversity of India’s engagement as an actor in this evolving space. What sort of normative choices and tensions are these likely to present for Indian diplomacy? At the end of the day, many of these issues will be fundamentally linked to how India perceives its role in the region and the world at large and how it chooses to engage with questions of benefit sharing, trade-offs and the allocation of risks and burdens. Outlining its development priorities and bringing greater clarity to conceptualising what foreign aid with Indian characteristics constitutes should be the first order of business that India needs to attend to, if it wants to stay ahead of the (lending) curve.
- Topic:
- Development, Diplomacy, Foreign Aid, and Currency
- Political Geography:
- South Asia, India, and Asia