Addressing the Key Issues in Emerging World with the Promotion of Smart and Sustainable Practices: A Case of Sarabha Nagar, Ludhiana

Sustainable Development Goals by United Nations, 2015 provided a mandate to all government and all the people to make cities inclusive, resilient and Sustainable. This study attempts to know how to achieve those goals by 2030 by working on Goal 11 Sustainable cities& communities and Goal 13 Climate change. Goal 11 is a stand-alone goal for sustainable cities within the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs that define what all countries of the world seek to achieve for their citizens and the planet by 2030. While the Smart city mission at the national level is the link which helps to achieve these goals in a much better and holistic manner. It comes up with the smart and sustainable solutions for those emerging issues by using bottom-up approach in planning by taking the case study of Sarabha Nagar, Ludhiana.