• 30 new cities selected to be made Smart; Bengaluru, Patna, Jammu make the cut

    The government today announced the third list of 30 cites to be made smart under its flagship 100 Smart Cities mission, taking the total number of smart cities to 90.

    Trivendrum in Kerala topped the chart, which included other prominent capital cities like Amaravati, Patna, Srinagar, Bengaluru, Shimla, Dehradun, Aizawl and Gangtok.

    A total of 45 cities contested for 40 available smart city slots but only 30 were selected to ensure feasible and workable plans that match the aspirations of the citizens as directed by prime minister Shri Narendra Modi while launching the mission,” said Venkaiah Naidu, minister of urban development and housing & urban poverty alleviation. He was speaking at a National Workshop on Urban Transformation here today.

    Another 20 cities will be contesting for the remaining 10 slots under smart city mission, he informed.

    The 30 cities announced on Friday will involve an investment of Rs 57,393 crore under respective smart city plans. This includes Rs 46,879 crore for ensuring core infrastructure in the areas identified by citizens for area based development and Rs 10,514 crore for technology based solutions for improving governance , service delivery and utilization of infrastructure.

    With this the total investment approved under the smart city plans of 90 cities has gone up to Rs 1,91,155 crore.

    “Selection of cities for smart city development is running ahead of schedule and the remaining cities would submit revised smart city plans for filling up the vacant slots,” Naidu said.

    Of the 30 cities announced today, 26 of them have proposed affordable housing projects, 26 cities will be taking up school and hospital projects, 29 will be taking up redesign and redevelopment of roads to enable walking and cycling.

    All the 30 cities will put in place Integrated Command and Control Centres that enable coordination among various agencies for better service delivery and effective management of scarce resources like water and power.

    The 100 Smart City Mission was launched on June 25, 2015.

    List of 30 Smart cites:
    S.No City State/Union Territory
    1 Trivendrum Kerala
    2 Naya Raipur Chattisgarh
    3 Rajkot Gujarat
    4 Amaravati Andhra Pradesh
    5 Patna Bihar
    6 Karimnagar Telangana
    7 Muzaffarpur Bihar
    8 Puducherry Puducherry
    9 Gandhinagar Gujarat
    10 Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir
    11 Sagar Madhya Pradesh
    12 Karnal Haryana
    13 Satna Madhya Pradesh
    14 Bengaluru Karnataka
    15 Shimla Himachal Pradesh
    16 Dehradun Uttarakhand
    17 Tirrupur Tamil Nadu
    18 Pimpri Chinchwada Maharashtra
    19 Bilaspur Chattisgarh
    20 Pasighat Arunachal Pradesh
    21 Jammu Jammu & Kashmir
    22 Dahod Gujarat
    23 Tirunelveli Tamil Nadu
    24 Thootukkudi Tamil Nadu
    25 Tiruchirapalli Tamil Nadu
    26 Jhansi Uttar Pradesh
    27 Aizawl Mizoram
    28 Allahabad Uttar Pradesh
    29 Aligarh Uttar Pradesh
    30 Gangtok Sikkim Dennis Cholowski Jersey

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