India's $20B Smart Cities Mission isn't, and has hardly scratched the surface after eight years

Many projects really about basic services, or don't integrate well. Charge ahead and extend it anyway, think tank recommends

In an assessment of India's eight-year-long Smart Cities Mission, think tank the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) has opined that the project can be considered "at best a drop in the ocean" and should be viewed as a "pilot project."...