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Is it really smart to create smart cities? Or should we reverse our thinking to concentrate on making smart villages?
New Delhi: What is smarter: building smart cities or smart villages?
In 1967, I was born in a village called Islampur in Nautan block near Bettiah town in the West Champaran district of Bihar. My father soon got a job at the Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd (HEC) in Ranchi, and our family shifted to HEC Township, 6 km from the centre of Ranchi city.
The township had all the urban amenities: wide roads, open spaces, playing fields, hospitals, recreation clubs, shopping complexes and so on.
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