Smart City programme a big failure in Kochi
5 years, 5 months ago

Smart City programme a big failure in Kochi

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: While other cities selected for Smart City Miss’ion across the country have implemented a series of projects, Kochi city could spend only less than five per cent of the Rs 2075 crore programme. The Centre has already given `196 crore for implementing projects in Kochi and the deadline for Smart City Mission programmes, started in 2016, is March 2020. “The Centre has provided only `196 crore and the remaining instalments will be given only after utilising 70 per cent of the funds,” said sources at Cochin Smart Mission Limited, the special purpose vehicle for Smart City Mission programme. Antony alleged that though Kochi was among the first 20 cities selected for the Smart City Mission programme, the authorities have failed to utilise the funds.

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Expect committee to probe smart city project works in six cities
6 days, 16 hours ago

Expect committee to probe smart city project works in six cities

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: On receipt on complaints over shoddy works in Smart City project, Minister for Urban Development Byrathi Suresh on Thursday said to constitute an expert committee including an expert drawn from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru to investigate the quality of works initiated under Smart City project in the cities of Shivamogga, Tumakuru, Hubballi-Dharwad, Davangere, Mangaluru and Belagavi. However, Bengaluru …

Why govt must heed IIT Kharagpur warning on Smart Cities funding crisis
1 week, 2 days ago

Why govt must heed IIT Kharagpur warning on Smart Cities funding crisis

India Today  

At the heart of India’s ambitious Smart Cities Mission lie the Integrated Command and Control Centres, the nerve hubs meant to revolutionise urban governance across 100 cities. ICCCs are centralised hubs designed to manage city infrastructure, monitor civic services, regulate traffic, ensure public safety and even conduct disaster simulations. The COO is supported by a mission director, often a senior …

Kochi, smarting from a lost opportunity
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Kochi, smarting from a lost opportunity

The Hindu  

Khadar P.B., 51, a textile shop owner, should by now have had a sprawling IT township with skyscrapers surrounding the waters of the Kadambrayar in his immediate neighbourhood at Edachira in Kakkanad, the IT hub of Kochi. Their land was part of a parcel of 246 acres leased out to SmartCity Infrastructure Private Limited, a special purpose vehicle jointly formed …

Probe Smart-City Kochi exit, put land to better use
1 month ago

Probe Smart-City Kochi exit, put land to better use

New Indian Express  

A big foreign investor’s entry or exit is a big deal for the investment-starved Kerala. So, when the state cabinet announced that it has allowed Dubai-based Tecom Investments to exit its 84 percent stake in SmartCity Kochi, a 246-acre IT park in which the state government owns the rest, questions were naturally asked about the cost of the pullout. The …

Projects amounting to Rs 1.47 lakh cr completed under Smart Cities Mission
1 month, 1 week ago

Projects amounting to Rs 1.47 lakh cr completed under Smart Cities Mission

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Around 91 per cent of the projects accounting for Rs 1.47 lakh crore under the Smart Cities Mission have been completed. As on November 15, 2024, under SCM, work orders have been issued in 8,066 projects amounting to Rs 1,64,669 crore, of which 7,352 projects amounting to Rs 1,47,366 crore or 91 per cent of total projects have been …

Centre extends Smart Cities Mission deadline till March 2025
6 months ago

Centre extends Smart Cities Mission deadline till March 2025

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday announced that the flagship Smart Cities Mission in 100 cities will be extended till March 2025. The Centre earmarked ₹48,000 crore for projects in 100 cities over the mission period of five years starting 2015 and required state government and urban local bodies to make a matching contribution. In January, HT reported how around …

Smart city scheme till March 2025, Karimnagar, Warangal to benefit
6 months, 1 week ago

Smart city scheme till March 2025, Karimnagar, Warangal to benefit

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD : The Centre has responded positively to the recent request made by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and approved the extension of the Smart City Mission till March 2025. During his recent visit to New Delhi, Revanth met Union minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal Khattar on June 24 and urged him to extend the deadline for …

Corporations set to take over Smart City works; Mayors’ Council seeks necessary steps from govt.
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Corporations set to take over Smart City works; Mayors’ Council seeks necessary steps from govt.

The Hindu  

With the deadline for the Smart City projects in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi ending by June, the two civic bodies are now set to take over the implementation and the existing office mechanism of the special purpose vehicle. In the Mayors’ Council meeting, chaired by Kochi Mayor M. Anilkumar, Thiruvananthapuram Mayor Arya Rajendran, Kollam Mayor Prasanna Ernest, Thrissur Mayor M.K. The …

Three really smart cities and the impact on people’s lives
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Three really smart cities and the impact on people’s lives

Hindustan Times  

The National Democratic Alliance government's flagship Smart Cities Mission, launched in 2015, aimed to bring transformative changes in urban governance in 100 selected cities. Ruban Suresh Ponnaiah, chief engineer at the Madurai Smart City Limited, said among all the projects taken up, the renovation of the Periyar bus terminal, spread over 30,500 sq metre, and the construction of the new …

Smart Cities Mission: 400 projects in over 10 cities may miss revised deadline
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Smart Cities Mission: 400 projects in over 10 cities may miss revised deadline

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: As many as 400 projects being undertaken by about ten cities under the Centre’s flagship Smart Cities Mission are unlikely to meet the extended deadline of June 2024, an official aware of the matter said on Thursday. A total of 100 Smart Cities have been selected through four rounds of competition from January 2016 to June 2018 The …

Questions remain over the govt’s ‘smart city mission’ project, says new report
1 year, 1 month ago

Questions remain over the govt’s ‘smart city mission’ project, says new report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Initiatives under the flagship Smart Cities Mission launched by the NDA government in 2015 are already noticeable. Smart cities work under a special purpose vehicle model by forming a company jointly owned by the urban local body and state government for the particular city. The report also said that worldwide, smart city initiatives such as New York, Amsterdam, …

First 22 smart cities in India to be ready by March
1 year, 10 months ago

First 22 smart cities in India to be ready by March

India Today  

Agra, Varanasi, Chennai, Pune and Ahmedabad are among the 22 cities that will complete all projects under the government's ambitious Smart Cities Mission by next month, giving their citizens better quality of life and a clean and sustainable environment, officials said on Sunday. In the remaining 78 cities selected under the mission, the ongoing projects will be completed in the …

Almost all 100 cities under smart cities initiative doing fairly well: Government
1 year, 10 months ago

Almost all 100 cities under smart cities initiative doing fairly well: Government

The Hindu  

The government on February 9 said that almost all 100 cities selected under the smart cities initiative are progressing "fairly well" with some facing a slowdown in work due to COVID-19 and local factors. The Centre's assertion came in response to a question in Lok Sabha by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who asked about "discrepancies" in the implementation of the …

The status of the Smart Cities Mission
3 years ago

The status of the Smart Cities Mission

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Centre used a competitive process to select 100 cities for upgradation with significant investments through the Smart Cities Mission launched on June 25, 2015. In September 2020, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs expanded the emphasis on climate-friendly infrastructure in smart cities through the Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework 2.0 and a “Streets for …

Kochi: Corp lags in fund use
5 years, 1 month ago

Kochi: Corp lags in fund use

Deccan Chronicle  

KOCHI: The strict guidelines of the local self-government department on timely and effective utilisation of annual Plan fund allocation notwithstanding, the Kochi corporation spent only 21.53 per cent of the funds so far. The civic body has 1515 projects worth Rs 210 crore for the 2019-20 fiscal including 990 new works and 525 spill-over works. Corporation development standing committee chairperson …

Why the Smart Cities Mission will miss its deadline
5 years, 5 months ago

Why the Smart Cities Mission will miss its deadline

India Today  

According to the 2017-18 Economic Survey, India will require $4.5 trillion worth of infrastructure investment by 2040. According to the Smart Cities Mission statement, such urban areas must feature all core infrastructure required for citizens to have a decent quality of life and a sustainable environmental footprint. A reply by Housing minister Puri in Parliament confirmed that area-based development projects …

Economic Survey 2019: Rs 2.05 lakh crore projects proposed in 100 cities under Smart City project
5 years, 6 months ago

Economic Survey 2019: Rs 2.05 lakh crore projects proposed in 100 cities under Smart City project

India TV News  

Projects worth over Rs 2.05 lakh crore are proposed in 100 cities under the Smart Cities Mission and significant progress has been made in terms of implementation of these projects, the Economic Survey 2018-19 said. The Smart Cities Mission, which was launched in June 2015 for a five-year period, seeks to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a …

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