Effort on to get 5 more UP cities on smart city list: Yogi Adityanath

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath thanked the Centre on Friday for including three more cities in the state under the Smart City Mission and promised to make every effort to provide world class facilities. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Jhansi, Allahabad and Aligarh have found place in the latest list of 30 new cities announced by Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu in Delhi as part of the government’s Smart City Mission, launched in 2015. Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Naidu, the chief minister also assured that his government would make every effort to promptly carry out works for the development of the cities selected under the Smart City project, the release said. Announcing the new list of smart cities in Delhi, Naidu said 45 cities contested for the 40 available smart city slots but only 30 were selected to ensure their feasibility and workable plans.