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Prospects of Smart Cities Development in India Through Public Private Partnership

There is an unprecedented growth of urbanization in India with a total urban population of 377 million (31%) in 2011. It is expected to become the most populous country by 2030 with 590 million populations. There is already heavy stress on the limited city infrastructures and are suffering from shortage of space and residential houses, transport bottleneck, paucity of drinking water, pollution, disposal of city waste and sewage, power-cuts, maintenance of law and order, and control of crimes. The Government of India (GoI) is going to build 100 smart cities across the country. The aim is to harness Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and knowledge infrastructures for economic regeneration, social cohesion, better city administration, intelligent transport management systems, energy efficiency in service delivery, public safety, online procurement, monitoring of physical assets, and making information available real in time. The investment in each smart city is estimated to be in excess of $10 billion. The government in the budget has provided a meager sum of Rs. 7,060 crore for the development of 100 smart cities. In the smart cities ‘mission statement and guidelines’ the government is going to encourage Public Private Partnership (PPP) as an alternative option to build most of the infrastructures, as over 1252 projects with a total project cost of Rs. 7,06,669.02 crore are under various stage of development. PPP can be useful both for green-field as well as brown-field smart cities projects. It can help in smart building, smart healthcare, smart mobility, smart infrastructure, smart technology and smart energy. This paper aims to analyze how PPP can help in ensuring development of quality infrastructure and providing other services for the proposed smart cities in India.