The response to the Chennai Corporation’s invitation to offer suggestions on smartening up Chennai has not been smart enough; with the respondents offering solutions to mundane civic issues and missing the point of this online exercise altogether.
With the deadline for the Smart City Challenge, which seeks to involve residents in the creation of smart urban solutions for Chennai, close at hand — October 15 — only 862 residents have responded online. What is disappointing is that many of them have not offered the right suggestions.