Implementation of Smart City Project has been Shallow: Premji

Wipro Chief Azim Premji on Saturday said the implementation of smart city project in India unfortunately has been shallow, despite catching a lot of attention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"It is very unfortunate that the smart city project has caught a lot of attention from Prime Minister etc, but its implementation has been shallow," Premiji said in an interaction with the students at the celebrations of Wipro's 2016 earthian awards here.The smart city mission is one of the flagship programmes of NDA government, which was announced on June 25, 2015.

However, the company has been actively participating in terms of providing IT solutions for smart city project, Premji said. "We have been actively participating in implementation process of the smart city project by providing IT and lighting solutions," he said. Replying to a query,Premji said per capita income of the people is mostly taken as a parameter to gauge the developed status of a country, but there are many qualitative aspects which get ignored in the process.

"Per capita income is mostly taken as a parameter to gauge the developed status of the country, but there are also many qualitative aspects which get ignored in the process," he said.