Enumerate the core infrastructure elements for Smart City development.

Networked utilities and mobility

• Adequate water supply means treated bulk, 24×7 or scheduled piped supply, metering, and reduction of non-revenue water, which AMRUT and city utilities must actually operate.
• Assured electricity includes underground cabling, solar rooftops, and smart metering so that street lighting, metro, and water pumping do not collapse with the feeder.
• Sanitation includes sewerage, sewage treatment, and scientific solid-waste management with processing, not only a bin-and-dump contract.
• Efficient urban mobility and public transport cover buses, NMT streets, ITS traffic, and, where viable, metro or BRTS; the National Urban Transport Policy remains the planning parent of this element.
• Affordable housing, especially for the poor, is listed as core infrastructure so that a Smart City is not an island of Wi-Fi beside a slum; PMAY–Urban is the usual delivery vertical.

Digital, green, and social core

• Robust IT connectivity and digitalisation — fibre, command-and-control centres, open data — are the ‘smart’ overlay on the pipes and roads, not a substitute for them.
• Good governance, especially e-governance and citizen participation, includes grievance apps, GIS property tax, and ward-level voice; the Mission’s SPV is meant to speed projects, not to eclipse the elected council.
• Sustainable environment covers green cover, energy efficiency, and pollution control, without which ‘smart’ mobility only rearranges congestion.
• Safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children, and the elderly, means lighting, CCTV with protocol, and police–municipal coordination, not surveillance as a slogan.
• Health and education complete the official core: clinics, schools, and digital health–education access so that infrastructure is human, not only municipal engineering.