Abstract
Indian cities in today’s era of digital transformation are changing rapidly under the label of a smart city project, impacting small and large town planning and strategies. These cities must tackle localized or situated issues like urban area regeneration, urban poverty, education, health, migration and job creation. Whereas these cities must prepare them for larger issue of climate change and resource scarcity. These multidimensional challenges need newer ways and approaches for systematic solutions and enhance broaden the role of researcher, planners, and regulators of cities. The cities under smart city project have different localized or situated issues and finding the right approaches is a challenge for scientist and urban practitioners. Finding the right balance for urban sustainability transitions need regress analysis of socio-technological variables. The variables are important to consider because it is targeting the entire societal system which has its flavor of culture and organics historically. This article is attempted to highlight the variables which are important for Indore city redevelopment under smart city mission by using modified TOPSIS. The novelty of this work is evaluation of alternatives in an uncertain environment, where each alternative has all together criteria which have some or no connection between them.

Key words: Smart City Mission, Sustainability, Urban Area Regeneration, Urban Sprawl, Slum Dwellers, Inclusive Planning, Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)