Smart City Pillars

► Institutional Infrastructure refers to activities pertaining to governance, planning and management of a city. ICT has provided a new facet to this system making it citizen centric, efficient, accountable and transparent.

► Physical Infrastructure refers to its stock of cost-efficient and intelligent physical infrastructure such as the urban mobility system, high speed broadband infrastructure, the housing stock, the energy system, the water supply system, sewerage system, sanitation facilities, solid waste management system, drainage system, etc. which are integrated through use of technology.

► Social Infrastructure relates to components that enable development of human and social capital, such as the education, healthcare, entertainment, etc. It also includes performance and creative arts, sports, the open spaces, children’s parks and gardens.

► Economic Infrastructure pertains to developing proper infrastructure that generates employment opportunities and attract investments.

This would generally comprise the following:

► Incubation Centers

► Skill Development Centers

► Industrial Parks and Export Processing Zones

► IT/BT Parks

► Trade centers

► Service Centers

► Financial Centers and Services

► Logistics hubs, warehousing and freight terminals