My Take: It may be unfair to blame the 'smart city' idea for our sinking cities

It may be unfair to blame the ‘smart city’ idea for our sinking cities. After all, the water-logging woes of cities like Patna, Mumbai, and many others pre-date the ‘smart city’ concept. What is true though is that the hundreds of crores being spent on tech-driven ‘smart city’ solutions are really no solution to the crisis of our metros: the real crisis is one of urban governance, especially local level municipal governance.