JAMMU, Aug. 29 -- The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Provincial President (Jammu), Rattan Lal Gupta, has launched a scathing critique of the much-hyped Smart City initiative, demanding a thorough structural audit of the funds spent on the Jammu Smart City projects.
"In the wake of massive floods and the widespread hardship they caused, the so-called pilot 'Smart City' project of the incumbent LG- Led Administration has been exposed as nothing more than a grand illusion. If this is what they call smart, then we'd hate to see what negligence looks like," Gupta said, hitting out at the superficial nature of the projects. He alleged that crores have been wasted on mere surface-level beautification, while essential infrastructure crumble...