Authors:-Sayandeep Chandra
Abstract:-The growing population of India is a serious issue for the country’s economic and social balance. In search of employment opportunities, a better lifestyle, quality education, rural people migrate to the cities every year at a large scale. This migration leads to the unplanned urbanization that causes inappropriate consumption of the resources-natural, technical and human resource, pollution, and leads to unhygienic lifestyle. In order to govern this inadvertent urbanization, the smart city could be a probable tool. “Smart†signifies the intelligence in the planning sector of the city and also points out the useful distribution of all resources. This smartness is achieved by nurturing the basic objectives of the smart cities like good quality of life, sustainable development, economic development & job growth, flourishing social, human, infrastructural capital and most important environmental aspect. Mitigation of environmental issues like pollution, inappropriate consumption of natural resources and the waste of the resources, is one of the core values of the smart city mission. Utilization of clean energy sources is the primary step to struggle to overcome the pollution and waste of natural resources. In the traditional city lower section of the urban area uses biomass or wood as fuel and middle & upper section opts for natural gas. Smart city redefines this traditional system into an organised and well-monitored concept of “city gas distribution (CGD)†network. CGD is the booming business sector in India with a good potential market. The smart metering system to restrict over the wastage & and all time availability is the basic feature of the CGD system and this will help to boost the usage of eco-friendly fuel publically at a large scale that will add value to the smart city concept or planned urbanization.
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