Use of ICT for Development of Smart City-Ahmedabad

Citizens of India residing in large cities face several issues related to citizen services in their day to day lives due to rapid growth, congestion and unplanned development of cities (Mega/Metro cities). In this paper, we have studied the concept of smart city and identified various parameters/requirements for smart city (in context of Ahmedabad city) as envisioned by national level mission of Government of India for creation of 100 smart cities in India. Various ICT based information systems/software/mobile apps for providing state of the art citizen services used in top 5 smart cities of the world has been studied. Based on literature survey and data collection, major problems and issues faced by citizens of Ahmedabad city have been identified. To address the problems, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) based model has been proposed. The paper also discusses related systems and Mobile Apps which can contribute towards making Ahmedabad, a smart city and provide better citizen services.