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If we are looking at creating smart cities, what we really need to create is something like a smart city authority. "Government authorities, senior officials and people who should be taking decisions, are not taking decisions quick enough. "I definitely wanted more from the smart city mission. "Till the time we put the residents at the centre of the entire initiative, smart city has no meaning. Panaji: The delay in the execution of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship smart cities mission has disappointed the industry, which feels that a bureaucratic decision making process and piece meal implementation threatens to derail the objective of the mission..