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A showcase city it reflects everything that india would like to be efficient clean and safe. it was built by investors with the promise of rapid growth and a new prosperity. start cities like this one are now planned for areas all over the country its hoped they will bring the kind of progress india is looking for. so. weve come to shankar mothers home. his telling his two grandchildren how life suddenly changed when the city was built . it was a dramatic transformation. look this was our old ho...

And live township but one thing is clear capitalism rules and residents are first and foremost consumers. the poor people live outside the small city. they were here before the investors came now the two sides live in a symbiotic relationship. for the poor living close to the city means the chance of earning an income for residents inside nagar past or the poor are a source of cheap labor. while the perfectly planned city prosperous and its residents enjoy a better life the rest of the country i...

. indias smart cities arent attempt to create a utopia they catapult their residents into maternity by leaving the rest of the country behind. these new cities built from scratch are seen by many as the way forward india could just be the start. the fast pace of life in the digital shift has the lowdown on the web showing new developments and providing useful information the wittiest finds and interviews with makers and users. should next on d w.

On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. welcome to the model city. found mission come up guy once who should take hang head on his farm and has given way to shiny glass buildings. indias first so-called smart says he was built on his fields around the clock there are people working here for customers all over the world. like. fifteen years ago this was all just fields now an entire city has been built on land that i used to farm. here in my car parts of our city we now have pe...

Standing in the way of the worlds biggest infrastructure project. they too are afraid of losing their home forever. almost half the population of india lives from farming. and yet i agree culture only accounts for around twelve percent of indias economic output. the government wants to redress that imbalance less agriculture and more industry is the goal. in may have had some kind of an introductory meeting with farmers from the twenty two religions that are affected by the. project and because ...

For themselves and for future generations its others who then stand to make a profit from their land. in the past or the model smart city things turned out exactly as many critics said they would. indias first smart city has been designed exclusively for the financial elite. those less well off have simply been overlooked. by local residents have made a good life for themselves in this small world the workers who do all the low paid jobs are forced to live outside the city. but one thing does ma...

A hard life as i did i hope they have a better life. and so she stands here every evening hoping that the money making city wont one day swallow up her home. inside the city life is good. for younger my history and her husband come to this club regularly with their friends. and. a glass of beer cost the equivalent of a full year as the only people in india who can afford these prices are the ones who work for an international company. the average wage in india otherwise is one hundred thirty eur...

State of gujarat is booming it recently recorded the greatest economic growth in india. but most people in good spirit still live in rural communities like here in des lera. they struggle to imagine what life will be like when their village disappears and is replaced by a huge modern city. its not actually possible for the government to simply seize peoples land the law stipulates that seventy percent of the land owners must approve the sale before the new city can be built. right so the residen...

Walls. i can get drunk and walk away all thought of what he. did. just because i was movie and only mother would have walked home im talking about walking over in the night i dont know how many people do that and yeah my. this is i met about indias seventh largest city it was founded over six hundred years ago and is steeped in history and it was once home to mahatma gandhi it was from here that gandhi started his famous song march in the drive for independence from britain. here at the design s...

Dilemma is also said to be a smart city a perfect world with a perfect design as highlighted in this promotional video. in your head going to. one of the board of large this conference really mark i did a. millionth of all. the government wants to build one hundred smart cities throughout india in some cases existing cities will be retrofitted with modern technology well others will be built from scratch. for the first time were going to run a competition in india to determine where the smart ci...