| |JUNE 20188Consultants ReviewRajul leads Strategy, M&A and Smart cities for Xylem in India. Xylem is a leading global water technology company. Rajul has 15+ years of experience in consulting cities and real estate developers in developing smart cities and smart townships. In past, Rajul has led Smart cities business for IBM and Accenture in IndiaBy Rajul Mehrotra, Director Strategy & Smart Cities, Xylem Indiaith the advent of time, the Smart City concept is not a jargon for many. It is all about the balanced development having a spe-cial focus on core infrastructure, economic development and sustain ability(Environmental & Economic). And, to catch hold of this, the Gov-ernment of India's initiative `100 Smart Cities Mission' , 99 cities have already been selected for funding. Each selected city has thoughtfully developed a Smart City proposal (City development plan) that reflects the city's stakeholders' needs and re-quirements. The combined spend for the 99 cities is around INR 2 Lacs Cr ($31B). 80% of overall spend is tout-ed to develop the core infrastructure and 20% of spend is on leveraging technology to improve efficiency/capacity of core infrastructure and-WIN MY OPINIONCLINCHING THE EDGE OF COMPETITIVE ERA BY BECOMING `SMART' CITY
< Page 7 | Page 9 >