Events

The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) invite you to a workshop on:

Analog Pasts and Digital Futures: Reflections on India’s Smart Cities Mission

17th and 18th January 2023, 9:00 AM IST onwards online via Zoom.
For any details or questions, please email smartcities@cprindia.org

About the Workshop

India’s Smart Cities Mission (SCM) was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in 2015 to improve infrastructure, enhance service delivery, and meet sustainability and inclusivity goals through institutional and technological innovations. Over the last seven years, the SCM has been gradually implemented in 100 Indian cities, with varied experiences and trajectories.

As the SCM approaches its end in June 2023, this workshop aims to take stock of the mission, bring together varied strands of recent scholarship and to engage in a dialogue with policy makers. Presentations cover multiple facets of the SCM outlined in the call for papers.

The schedule can be accessed here.