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Smart Cities will endeavour to use technology, information and data to improve infrastructure and services. Smart city is a wave of transformation where people of particular city get all kinds of essential services like drinking water, sanitation, transport, roads, streetlights, facility of education, information technology, hospital, garden, parking and hotels, railways, airport connectivity, fire mitigation, including disaster management and better solid waste management plan, so that immaculate cleanliness can be maintained by civic bodies in their respective cities. Citizen centricity is at the heart of making smart cities a reality. Urban local bodies should develop their smart city plan through rigorous analysis of citizen concern and priorities. It is difficult to define smart city since it concept varies from country to country and in India its connotation changes from city to city. It aims at developing the entire urban eco-system, which is represented by the four pillars of comprehensive development institutional, physical, social and economic infrastructure. In the approach of the smart cities Mission, the objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment, and application of smart solutions. The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a replicable model which will act like a light house to other aspiring cities. This paper focuses on the concept of smart city and also analyses the key performance indicators areas for the development of Udaipur city. It also throws light on the challenges faced by the Rajasthan Government in making Udaipur as a smart city. The methodology adopted in this paper is the collection of data through secondary sources which includes newspaper, internet and books. This paper also highlights the suggestions to overcome the challenges in making Udaipur as a Smart City.
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