Smart city scheme till March 2025, Karimnagar, Warangal to benefit
5 months, 3 weeks 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 the Smart City Mission till June 2025. Works have been taken up in Warangal and Karimnagar under the Smart City Mission in the state. The Centre wrote a letter to states on Saturday extending the Smart City Mission.

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Nizamabad people seek smart city funds
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Nizamabad people seek smart city funds

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: Smart city status from the Centre has become a distant dream for people of Nizamabad. While BRS leader Dandu Neethu Kiran is serving as Nizamabad mayor, BJP leader Dhanpal Suryanarayana Gupta is Nizamabad urban MLA and another BJP leader Dharmapuri Arvind is the Member of Parliament. In the recent Parliament election campaign, Arvind assured to secure the smart city …

Centre extends Smart Cities Mission deadline till March 2025
5 months, 2 weeks 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 …

Three really smart cities and the impact on people’s lives
10 months, 1 week 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 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 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, …

Srinagar’s iconic Lal Chowk in for facelift as city readies for G20
1 year, 8 months ago

Srinagar’s iconic Lal Chowk in for facelift as city readies for G20

Hindustan Times  

The iconic Lal Chowk, the beating heart of the city’s business centre, wears a scruffy look with its historical charm taking a back seat to JCB machines, masons and hammer-wielding workers dotting the dusty and uneven roads leading up to the ganthaghar or clock tower. “The city looks dusty especially the city centre Lal Chowk because hundreds of people are …

Thoothukudi Smart City works expected to be completed by June, says Lok Sabha MP and DMK leader Kanimozhi
1 year, 8 months ago

Thoothukudi Smart City works expected to be completed by June, says Lok Sabha MP and DMK leader Kanimozhi

The Hindu  

Smart City works initiated over the last two years under Thoothukudi Corporation limits were expected to be completed and dedicated to public use by June, said Lok Sabha MP and DMK leader Kanimozhi here on Sunday. Presiding over a review meeting on the Corporation premises where Minister Geetha Jeevan, Collector K. Senthil Raj, SP Balaji Saravanan, Corporation Commissioner S. Dinesh …

Telangana diverting central funds, alleges Union minister
1 year, 11 months ago

Telangana diverting central funds, alleges Union minister

Deccan Chronicle  

Warangal: Although the Union government is sanctioning funds to the state government to take up several developmental works and for implementation of central schemes, the funds are being diverted by the state government for other purposes, alleged Union minister of development of north eastern region B.L. In town as part of Pravas Yojana scheme, the union minister, along with BJP …

Srinagar set for a ₹980-crore makeover
2 years, 1 month ago

Srinagar set for a ₹980-crore makeover

The Hindu  

The historical and cultural character of Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir’s summer capital with around 4,000 years of written history, is set for a revamp. Under the ₹980 crore Srinagar Smart City Project, the ‘Venice of the East’ with its water bodies, Mughal-era gardens and British-era boulevards and bungalows, will achieve many firsts over the next six months, including better urban …

Indore, Surat win big at Smart Cities Awards 2020, UP top performer among states
3 years, 5 months ago

Indore, Surat win big at Smart Cities Awards 2020, UP top performer among states

India Today  

The Centre on Friday declared the Smart Cities Awards 2020 in which Indore and Surat won the award jointly for holistic development. The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry evaluated smart cities across a gamut of themes like social aspects, governance, culture, urban environment, sanitation, economy, built environment, water and urban mobility before finalising the winners. The awards commemorated six …

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