What is a smart city? | Shravan Hardikar | TEDxPune

Mr. Shravan Hardikar is a thought leader and bureaucrat with the Government of India. In his talk, Mr. Shravan will dispel the myths about making a city smart and friendly. This talk leaves a point to ponder in the minds of every smart listener. Shravan Hardikar is a decorated bureaucrat with the Government of India and currently posted in the Pune City. He is a thinker and has studied various cities across the globe to understand what "Smart" City means. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@yashomani]

Amazing talk....I am extremely proud to have Shravan as my friend in COEP Pune !

[@anildeshpande705]

What an eye opener presentation 👏 👌 Visionary bureaucrats like Shri Shavan Hardikar sir, can really make a difference provided all of us discipline ourselves to be smart... India is certainly progressing as a global economy... we have great leaders to make it happen... Jai Hind...

[@shripadnaik1557]

We need to ❤ love our cities from the bottom of our hearts.

[@ronakgandhi7046]

Amazing Speech Sir. This is the ground reality which you brought in picture ! Smart city definitely needs smart people

[@sarahsablok]

Deeply insightful with such immense clarity! Hope for such endeavours to always succeed under your leadership

[@shaileshmalegaonkar6977]

Very engrossing, well articulated and coming straight from heart.... Congratulations Sravan sir.... Hope this reaches and connects to every man, woman and child to make our thinking smart.... One step closer to our actual vision of smart city...

[@chaaandkd]

Very engaging, great stories and analogies. Thanks for the wonderful talk. Brilliantly delivered 🌹👏👏👏

[@chitrapanwar5059]

This world is better place with a man like him... Hon. Sir you are great vissionery.... All the projects of PCMC are sucessful in among all other 100 smartcity because of your vision, your efforts and your passion. I always admire you... We just wanted to keep listening you...

[@abhijeetpharande8476]

Absolutely amazing talk and perfect to the point 👍🏻👌🏻💐

[@shamshuddinmunshi]

So true, we all need to be smart, disciplined and hold ourselves accountable. It will help in making a better livable city for generations to come.

[@nitindeshpande1395]

Perfect illustration sir …. Inspite of infrastructure & technology, lack of the discipline is the concern…. & population to serve in comparison with all cities in abroad…. Great thought.. thanks again ..

[@sudeepdutt364]

Brilliant sir …. Bureaucrats like you will take this country way forward . More power to you .

[@bharatgarud3063]

R/Sir, Very beautiful, poignant and best guidance for those who walk around with blind eyes 🙏

[@gjayar]

Excellent and Though provoking speech... coming from a Thought Leader. Thank You.

[@amitkothawade9365]

Very well articulated Sir. Amazing talk 😊

[@naga291983]

Sir, inspirational speech

[@devdattakashalikar3551]

अतिशय दर्जेदार मार्गदर्शन, माहिती.खूप छान कार्यक्रम. मा. श्रावण हर्डीकर यांनी पिपंरी चिंचवड पुणे नव्हे तर महाराष्ट्रभर आपल्या कामाचा ठसा उमटवला आहे. खूप खूप अभिनंदन 💐💐

[@vishwasvidwans3006]

Very nice speech. A thought provoking

[@tanajigangawane9475]

Very nice sir, we are proud of you.

[@drnarendrakale7653]

YES Sir Very True as Smart City is Developed at the same time we all ourselves shall also become Mentally smart and social

[@5PGroup101]

Great visinory Speech. Gov can develop infra SMARTER, but only DISCIPLINED citizens can live a SMART CITY !!

[@ashokbhalkar6788]

Excellent speech Sir

[@amolgangras5105]

This is well informed take on the concept , super !

[@nayankhanolkar]

Superb talk!

[@satyajitdolas3207]

खूप सुंदर परीक्षण आणि आखणी ,गर्व आहे मित्रा श्रावण

[@kiranharalpatil2959]

Very nice sir, it is 100% correct. Technology, infrastructure will come but it will not make the city smart, it is true that for a city to be smart, people need to be smart or make people smart. 👌👌

[@anandpawarpune]

That’s very thoughtful!

[@Endosunil9459]

Lucid and Crisp Analysis of our situation And Scholarly solution for making our city smart

[@adityagadgil2274]

While PCMC and Nagpur are two of most well planned and improved cities and am proud, Shravan has had his intelligence, efforts and commitment to make it happen, yet fundamental questions as citizen bother me are : 1) What was Govt of India's plan to make cities smart when conceptualized in 2015? 2) Where it stands after 7 years (and counting). How ROI is measured on said program? 3) If said project/program didnt exist, would that have made difference wrt outcome today? 4) On express way (like Mumbai Pune) or even Pune Solapur highway, the same traffic appears disciplined than how it was in and around city. 5) Fundamentally people are sensible, Indians definitely so, as also noticed by Swedes too, yet are they not pushed in mode of a cornered cat? 6) Many of Pune roads got repaired, beautified, traffic streamlined, when G20 was on, or example close to ITians mind, Pashan - Sus - Nande Chande road got repaired miraculously in 3 nights what 3 years and 1000s of complaints couldn't achieve when honorable President was to visit Symbiosis institute as Lavale village and had to take said road.. 7) So is it not a question of Accountability by governing bodies and at the same time voters too who are in mode of seeing democracy as a spectator's sport that their involvement is just to vote once in 5 years that too based on caste, creed than real quality of life? 8) Airports, Railway stations (few if not all) have improved, so what is stopping to improve livable index of cities quickly especially when focus was on 100 odd cities at a time? 9) Take another example, PMC hiked property tax by 40% and applied backdated from 2018 (can be soft worded as, discount from Panshet tragedy got discontinued after 5 decades) yet does new tax justify quality of life compared to on par cities with now lower tax bracket? (Thane/ Nagpur). Why on this topic wording of commissioner and statements of political parties vs whats conveyed to department doesnt match? 10) Completely understand, for a huge country like India, with so many cultural nuances, any change is not easy and few might not even be practically possible to roll out. However with ignorance of political and civil/administrative services understanding, to simple mind of a tax paying citizen, seems system built and being practiced is letting lack of accountability survive and only individual heroics make exceptional improvement (e.g. T N Seshan as CEC, Kiran Bedi as IPS, or in politics, Nitin Gadkari for NHAI, S Jaishankar as MEA) but not as a sustained systemic mechanism thats needed to keep up pace for developed India by 2047, which is a real concern!

[@vikasthakar7727]

Excellent analysis of the wholistic picture

[@dcazarez05]

Amazing talk! Too much samples apply on Mexico.

[@skj624]

Other vehicles are driving recklessly through the BRT . Any actions?... Even if red signals shown they don't stop. when someone take the u turn after seeing green signal ,accidents happen when these reckless drivers/owners of cars drive through the BTR .

[@abhayamalshe6049]

Mentality should change of everyone

[@kiladisisters4900]

People are smarter..but they should come down to smart level and add little civic sense and responsibilities 😀

[@opq5474]

Pune is not Smart City ------ it's Oversmart.

[@tusharmane2028]

Maja nahi aaya

[@ravikishormane6408]

When he ask " can we be smart.?"...then beside shocking everybody laughing shamelessly... should be getting serious on his talk