India requires one city of Chicago size to be built every year for next ten years: Aghi

Washington: The scale of urbanisation in India requires one city of the size of Chicago to be built every year for the next 10 years, the head of a top American business advocacy group has said.

In a panel discussion ‘Smart Cities in India: Challenges and Opportunities’ at India Conference organised by the Harvard University over the weekend, Mukesh Aghi, president of the US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) emphasised that the need of a robust public-private-partnership for funding all Smart Cities projects following the success path of Singapore.