Just now one of my friend told that varanasi soon becoming smartcity. Given a huge project to a IT giant. Sounds cool these days when NM is trying hard to win hearts of billions of Indian people. But on a contrary I find this smartcity concept laughable. Are we building city smart or people smart. To make people smart the they have to be educated, I am not saying they have to be graduate or diploma holders but atleast the basic manners and attiqetes. People killing for 5 rupees change in parking road rash and that too in smart city. Smart city means what! Properly connected to internet wifi on public places, easy access to railway bookings, lot of automation on streets, reducing manhours and increasing machine hours, increasing dependency on computers etc etc. And what about the charm of city with simplicity where people intract in person, visits homes on festival instead of sending forward msgs and emails, authenticity of tourist places. Smart city kills simplicity and push the civilization towards more machine world than humanity. Yes we dont deny technology is important but over dependent on this is dangerous. Technology to preserve humanity is most beautiful thought. Can technology create love and affection between religion and group of people. Lets make people smart and educated, city will automatically become smarter. Smart city is only possible by simple and educated people. Its easy to be smart and very difficult to be simple. If you are smart sponsor or help at least one homeless child's education, health care and hygine.
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