Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu speaks to NDTV's Vikram Chandra
As India heads towards newer opportunities of growth and progress, Union minister Venkaiah Naidu today said if we want smart cities, we need to have smart leaders. He was speaking to NDTV's Vikram Chandra at the Social Innovations for Future - Solutions for India conference.
Here are the highlights:- Planning is important but more important is implementation
- You have to educate your people - people include leaders.
- We have to learn from the experience of other people
- People are digging up roads every two days - so you have to create facilities like ducts
- If you want smart cities, you need smart leadership... smart in thinking
- I came to your meeting using the metro
- You can't think of congestion tax like Singapore immediately
- But we have to focus on mass transport - MRTS, BRT or cycling lanes
- I'm focusing now for expanding metro-rail across the country - now the demand is coming from states that have cities with population of 10 lakh and above