Expect committee to probe smart city project works in six cities
5 days, 23 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 city falling under the Smart City project has been excluded from the investigation. Suresh said he received complaints from elected representatives on substandard works under Smart City project and stated as much as 6, 415 crore has been spent on works under Smart City project but the works have not been executed on expected lines. The Minister said the works under Smart City project have been initiated in the 50:50 ratio between Central and State Government and majority of the works initiated under the project have remained incomplete.

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Inquiry ordered into quality of work at six Smart City locations in Karnataka
5 days, 15 hours ago

Inquiry ordered into quality of work at six Smart City locations in Karnataka

India Today  

Urban Development Minister BS ‘Bairati’ Suresh, on Thursday, instructed officials to conduct a complete investigation into the works carried out in six Smart City projects of Karnataka, not including Bengaluru, and submit a report. At a review meeting, Bairati Suresh looked over the progress of Smart City projects in six districts: Belagavi, Davangere, Hubballi-Dharwad, Mangaluru, Shivamogga and Tumkur. The work …

Why govt must heed IIT Kharagpur warning on Smart Cities funding crisis
1 week, 1 day 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 …

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 …

Smart Cities Mission: 400 projects in over 10 cities may miss revised deadline
11 months, 2 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, …

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 …

Chandigarh: Experts to assess impact of Smart City projects
3 years, 3 months ago

Chandigarh: Experts to assess impact of Smart City projects

Hindustan Times  

To comprehensively assess the effectiveness of the multi-crore infrastructural projects being implemented by the Chandigarh Smart City Limited, a dedicated impact assessment cell will soon be created within it. “Unless we conduct an impact assessment of the projects, we don’t get to know how they have influenced lives of residents,” said Anindita Mitra, chief executive officer of the CSCL. Some …

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. …

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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