Defining 'Four C’s' On Smart City : Concept, Components, Challenges, and Clarifications

It hardly needs any justification that Indian cities are enjoying the status of ‘engines of growth and productivity’, yet the state of housing and basic infrastructure facilities remain awfully poor. This calls for ‘smart city’ solutions in India as vision out with the concept of “Smart Cities”. With this novel concept, the country is in a new process of smart transformations. This paper uniquely specifies four C’ s of smart cities that are: concept, components, challenges and clarifications. It is based on the content analysis of various reports and articles which are explored for the purpose. Overall, it is concluded that concept and components of smart city are interlinked. There are different ways people are defining smart city, and accordingly various components of smart city have been described under various approaches. The three main approaches regarding components of smart city remained: four components approach, six components approach, and smart diamond approach of eight components. The path of smart city initiative is not free from various challenges which needs to be over whelmed. So, further clarifications or strategic solutions on this matter are described. The findings are directed towards applying a team work approach for achievement of the vision of smart city with shared responsibility of all the stakeholders in the society . Also, the progress of this mission must be monitor ed regularly to plug all loopholes including delays, financial leakages and corrupt practices