25th June News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day
8 years, 8 months ago

25th June News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day

India TV News  

National News Five CRPF troopers martyred, two millitants killed in Kashmir highway attack Five Central Reserve Police Force troopers and two guerrillas were killed on Saturday in a gunfight after guerrillas ambushed a CRPF convoy on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said. PM Modi launches Smart City projects in Pune, says ‘it is a mass movement’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched 83 Smart City projects in Pune. International News Belgium detains 2 in new anti-terror raids Belgian police detained two men for questioning after fresh anti-terror raids overnight, the federal prosecutor's office said today amid reports of a planned attack on a Euro 2016 fanzone. Brexit: Good news for Indian buyers, UK real estate may get cheaper Indian investors may look at acquiring properties in UK, including in London, following devaluation of pound and fall in real estate prices due to Britain's exit from European Union, property consultants said today.

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PM Modi to launch development projects in Andhra Pradesh
2 months, 2 weeks ago

PM Modi to launch development projects in Andhra Pradesh

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch projects worth Rs 2 lakh crore in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday as he embarks on a two-day tour of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Modi said in a post on X, “I look forward to being among the people of Visakhapatnam to inaugurate key works linked to green energy, renewable energy, infrastructure and more. …

Inquiry ordered into quality of work at six Smart City locations in Karnataka
2 months, 2 weeks 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 …

Expect committee to probe smart city project works in six cities
2 months, 2 weeks 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
2 months, 3 weeks 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 …

Will new cities be added under 'Smart Cities Mission'? Check Modi govt's response
3 months ago

Will new cities be added under 'Smart Cities Mission'? Check Modi govt's response

India TV News  

Will new cities be added under 'Smart Cities Mission'? Check Modi govt's response The Smart Cities Mission has played a pivotal role in redefining urban spaces by integrating technology, enhancing infrastructure, and addressing the challenges of urbanisation. Smart Cities Mission: The central government clarified on Monday in the Rajya Sabha that there is no current proposal to expand the ambit …

Pune Smart city retains control of ATMS
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Pune Smart city retains control of ATMS

Hindustan Times  

In a surprising turn, Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited has decided to continue managing the ‘Adaptive Traffic Management System’ for the next five years, reversing earlier plans to hand over the project to Pune Municipal Corporation. The Central government has extended the Smart city project up to March 2025.” In 2018, PMC had approved ₹102 crore for installing an …

PM Modi Launches Slogan 'Perform, Reform, Transform, and Inform' in First Cabinet Meeting of Third Term
6 months, 3 weeks ago

PM Modi Launches Slogan 'Perform, Reform, Transform, and Inform' in First Cabinet Meeting of Third Term

ABP News  

The first meeting of the Council of Ministers during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term was held on Wednesday at Sushma Swaraj Bhavan in Delhi. During the session, the Central Cabinet for Economic Affairs approved the establishment of 12 new industrial smart cities in 9 states. Spread across 10 states and aligned with six major corridors, these 12 industrial smart …

Smart city scheme till March 2025, Karimnagar, Warangal to benefit
8 months, 2 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 …

Three really smart cities and the impact on people’s lives
1 year, 1 month 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
1 year, 2 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, 3 months 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, 11 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, 11 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 …

First 22 smart cities in India to be ready by March
2 years, 1 month 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 …

Srinagar set for a ₹980-crore makeover
2 years, 4 months 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 …

'Collapse Of Old Buildings, Fire In Cities A Major Concern': PM Modi To BJP Mayors On Urban Planning
2 years, 6 months ago

'Collapse Of Old Buildings, Fire In Cities A Major Concern': PM Modi To BJP Mayors On Urban Planning

ABP News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched the two-day 'National Mayors' Conference' in Gujarat's capital Gandhinagar on Tuesday. The two-day event, organised by the party's 'sushasan cell,' has brought together 121 mayors and deputy mayors from BJP-ruled urban local bodies throughout the nation. Addressing the Council of Mayors and Deputy Mayors of BJP in Gandhinagar, PM Modi stated: "This conference has …

Indore, Surat win big at Smart Cities Awards 2020, UP top performer among states
3 years, 8 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 …

Economic Survey 2019: Rs 2.05 lakh crore projects proposed in 100 cities under Smart City project
5 years, 8 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 …

Narendra Modi says Congress tradition of vote-bank politics fading
6 years, 8 months ago

Narendra Modi says Congress tradition of vote-bank politics fading

Live Mint  

Indore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hit out at the Congress, alleging that the opposition party’s policy of votebank politics, by way of welfare schemes, was fading. He said the number of houses sanctioned under the NDA government was three times more than sanctioned during the UPA rule and in the next couple of years, another two crore would …

Smart Cities Mission: Narendra Modi says govt committed Rs 2 lakh cr for development, but data shows only 0.09% spent
6 years, 9 months ago

Smart Cities Mission: Narendra Modi says govt committed Rs 2 lakh cr for development, but data shows only 0.09% spent

Firstpost  

Modi’s claim of having committed over Rs 2 lakh crore for 100 smart cities is four times more than the total outlay of Rs 48,000 crore the Centre promised states By Alison Saldanha Mumbai: “100 smart cities are being developed at an expenditure of over Rs 2 lakh crore,” prime minister Narendra Modi claimed in an infographic tweet_,_ on May …

Govt announces fourth smart cities list, did your city make the cut?
7 years, 2 months ago

Govt announces fourth smart cities list, did your city make the cut?

India TV News  

Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday made new additions to the smart cities mission. With this the cumulative number of cities selected under the smart city programme has gone up to 99 which is close to the mission of hundred smart cities that was announced by PM Narendra Modi in June 2015. "Nine cities selected have proposed an …

GPS for garbage trucks, traffic mobility, battery-operated buses: Why is Pune not logging on to its Smart City plan?
7 years, 3 months ago

GPS for garbage trucks, traffic mobility, battery-operated buses: Why is Pune not logging on to its Smart City plan?

Hindustan Times  

Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched 14 projects under the Smart City mission in the city on June 25, 2016, most of the projects are yet to take off. Projects that the Smart City mission had initially announced, including the Common Mobility Card project, GPS in garbage carrying vehicles, pedestrian and cycle lanes in Aundh, traffic mobility plan, battery-operated …

Citizen engagement is our priority in Pune’s Smart City project, says Prerna Deshbhratar
7 years, 8 months ago

Citizen engagement is our priority in Pune’s Smart City project, says Prerna Deshbhratar

Hindustan Times  

As the Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd gears up for the deadline to showcase their finished projects under the smart city mission, Hindustan Times caught up with Prerana Deshbhratar, CEO PSCDCL and additional municipal commissioner, who shared details of the ongoing projects and what else is in store for the city. What came across on top of everyone’s list …

Lucknow Municipal Corporation celebrates two years of Smart City and Amrut schemes
7 years, 8 months ago

Lucknow Municipal Corporation celebrates two years of Smart City and Amrut schemes

Hindustan Times  

The Lucknow Municipal Corporation on Sunday launched 10 people-friendly services, including two portals and advanced bus shelters, to celebrate the second anniversary of the Smart City and the Amrut schemes. A Smart City bus stand on Ashok Marg, and smart mobile compact waste transfer vehicles and transfer stations were also dedicated to Lucknowites. “To boost cleanliness in the city, a …

100 Smart Cities: Three from UP, two from Bihar make it to new list of 30 cities
7 years, 8 months ago

100 Smart Cities: Three from UP, two from Bihar make it to new list of 30 cities

India TV News  

Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, Naya Raipur in Chhattisgarh and Rajkot in Gujarat figure in the new list of 30 cities announced today for development as smart cities under the Centre's Smart City Mission. Announcing the new list of smart cities at an event here, Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said that 45 cities contested for the 40 available smart city …

Effort on to get 5 more UP cities on smart city list: Yogi Adityanath
7 years, 8 months ago

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

Hindustan Times  

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 …

Modi’s Gandhinagar, Jammu and Patna among 30 names on latest smart cities list
7 years, 8 months ago

Modi’s Gandhinagar, Jammu and Patna among 30 names on latest smart cities list

Hindustan Times  

Gandhinagar, the capital of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, Karnal in Haryana, Allahabad, Aligarh and Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar’s capital Patna are among the 30 urban centres that were chosen on Friday to be developed as smart cities. Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation M Venkaiah Naidu announcing names on the Smart Cities …

ISRO chief AS Kiran Kumar says IoT will be important to create efficient smart cities
8 years, 2 months ago

ISRO chief AS Kiran Kumar says IoT will be important to create efficient smart cities

Firstpost  

Kumar explored the importance of the Internet of Things in the current connected world, and how disruptive the technology will be in the future. Alur Seelin Kiran Kumar, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation delivered a talk on “New Business Models and the Art of What’s Possible” at CII Karnataka ICT Summit 2017. On the sidelines of the Vibrant …

Govt to add 40 more towns to Smart Cities list
8 years, 2 months ago

Govt to add 40 more towns to Smart Cities list

Deccan Chronicle  

Gandhinagar: Government will add by next month 40 more cities to the list of towns it wants to develop as Smart Cities by providing funds for initiating urban reforms, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Wednesday. We have problems, but our cities and towns are galvanised to meet new challenges, new ideas, and new orientation," said the Urban Development …

Large-scale smart city projects in Indian cities are at risk, says Gartner
8 years, 4 months ago

Large-scale smart city projects in Indian cities are at risk, says Gartner

Firstpost  

The lack of a holistic, framework-based approach and a viable revenue model are stalling large-scale smart city projects in India, media research firm Gartner said on Tuesday, predicting that through 2020, less than 10 percent of smart city projects implemented across the country will be of a large-scale. “While many Indian cities have announced smart city projects, a structured approach …

PM Modi’s constituency Varanasi among 27 new entrants in govt’s Smart Cities list
8 years, 6 months ago

PM Modi’s constituency Varanasi among 27 new entrants in govt’s Smart Cities list

India TV News  

Three Uttar Pradesh cities, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi have found place in the list of 27 cities for financing under the NDA government’s flagship Smart City Mission, announced today. Ajmer, Amritsar, Gwalior, Kohima, Kota, Nagpur, Thane, Thanjavur Vadodara and Vadodara have also found place in the list which was announced by Union minister for Urban …

Smart Cities Mission: Flaws in a flagship programme
8 years, 8 months ago

Smart Cities Mission: Flaws in a flagship programme

The Hindu  

The Narendra Modi government would be celebrating a year of the launch of its flagship urban programme, the >Smart Cities Mission, this month. Aimed at allocating Rs.10 billion to each selected city over a span of five years, the mission has been claimed by Venkaiah Naidu, the Minister for Urban Development, as a “first in the country and even in …

Singh-Mehta ties raise doubts on Indore Smart City project fate
8 years, 8 months ago

Singh-Mehta ties raise doubts on Indore Smart City project fate

Hindustan Times  

The alleged ‘unholy’ ties between Indore municipal corporation commissioner Manish Singh and city-based consultant Hitendra Mehta of Mehta and Associates raise doubts over the blueprint of Indore’s Smart City project, especially after seven BJP corporators on Friday submitted a memorandum to divisional commissioner Sanjay Dubey and demanded a Lokayukta probe into Singh’s alleged disproportionate assets. Mehta and Associates is one …

Modi launches Smart City projects in Jaipur, Udaipur via video-conference
8 years, 8 months ago

Modi launches Smart City projects in Jaipur, Udaipur via video-conference

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the ambitious Smart City project in Jaipur and Udaipur, envisaging availability of modern amenities with improved urban infrastructure in the two Rajasthan cities, through video-conferencing from Chhatrapati Shivaji Sports Complex in Pune. In her live interaction with Mr. Modi, Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje outlined the mission statements for the smart cities and thanked …

Smart City project a mass movement: PM
8 years, 8 months ago

Smart City project a mass movement: PM

The Hindu  

“People of the cities have to decide about the development of their urban spaces and such decisions cannot be taken in Delhi,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, speaking in Pune on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Centre’s ‘Smart City mission’ project. Remarking on the robustness of the ‘Smart City’ project, he said the project in …

Urbanisation can mitigate poverty: PM Modi at smart city launch
8 years, 8 months ago

Urbanisation can mitigate poverty: PM Modi at smart city launch

Hindustan Times  

Making a strong pitch to consider urbanisation as an opportunity to mitigate poverty and not as a problem, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said cities have to be strengthened through comprehensive and inter-connected approach combined with increased public participation. Modi said that is the reason why this smart city concept was evolved through public participation and stressed that if …

Smart City projects: Modi to hold video talk with Belagavi City Corporation officials
8 years, 8 months ago

Smart City projects: Modi to hold video talk with Belagavi City Corporation officials

Deccan Chronicle  

Belagavi: A City Gas Distribution Network covering 43,000 households will be launched in Belagavi following a video conference between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and officials of the Belagavi City Corporation on Saturday. Besides the gas network, a series of initiatives will take off for Belagavi under the Smart City Project following the video conferencing. The corporation is gearing up to …

PM Modi to launch ‘Smart City Mission’ projects from Pune on June 25
8 years, 8 months ago

PM Modi to launch ‘Smart City Mission’ projects from Pune on June 25

India TV News  

New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘smart cities’ project will be kicked-off on June 25 in 20 cities. Marking the first anniversary of the announcement of the government’s flagship programme, Modi will launch the ‘Smart City Mission’ projects from Pune’s 5,000-capacity Shiv Chatrapati Sports Complex. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Smart City projects on June 25, 2016, kick-starting …

Enter PM Modi’s smart city contest, win Rs 1 lakh
8 years, 9 months ago

Enter PM Modi’s smart city contest, win Rs 1 lakh

Hindustan Times  

The Narendra Modi government has decided to encourage people’s participation in its flagship smart city mission with a design contest for cities picked for the project. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a ceremony at the launch of Smart Cities Mission in New Delhi Prime Minister Modi will launch the open competition in Pune on June 25, the first anniversary of …

Smart City projects: PM Modi to inaugurate work on June 25 from Pune, says Venkaiah Naidu
8 years, 9 months ago

Smart City projects: PM Modi to inaugurate work on June 25 from Pune, says Venkaiah Naidu

India TV News  

Hyderabad: Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate work on Smart City Projects from Pune on June 25. Referring to Congress' dig at him for praising the Prime Minister, Naidu, who has in the past described Modi as God's gift to India and messiah of the poor, wondered why it could …

Govt to announce 14 more cities under flagship Smart City Mission
8 years, 10 months ago

Govt to announce 14 more cities under flagship Smart City Mission

Firstpost  

Along with the existing 20 cities, the new cities to be announced will also receive the first tranche of funding Names of 14 more new cities would be announced soon under the flagship ‘Smart City Mission’ which will receive the first tranche of funding, the government today said. Another 13 or 14 cities are going to be announced in a …

40 cities to be selected in second round of smart city project: Govt to Rajya Sabha
8 years, 10 months ago

40 cities to be selected in second round of smart city project: Govt to Rajya Sabha

Firstpost  

Forty cities will be selected for the second phase of the Smart City Mission, which is likely to be announced by June, Rajya Sabha was told on Thursday. New Delhi: Forty cities will be selected for the second phase of the Smart City Mission, which is likely to be announced by June, Rajya Sabha was told on Thursday. The first …

Budget 2016: Over Rs 7,290 crore allocated for AMRUT, 'Smart Cities' Mission
9 years ago

Budget 2016: Over Rs 7,290 crore allocated for AMRUT, 'Smart Cities' Mission

Firstpost  

The government on Monday allocated about Rs 7,296 crore for two central schemes of urban transformation, AMRUT and ‘Smart Cities’ Mission New Delhi: The government on Monday allocated about Rs 7,296 crore for two central schemes – Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation and ‘Smart Cities’ Mission. The general budget 2016-17 earmarked an amount of Rs 3,205 crore for …

PM Modi's smart cities need investment of over $150 billion: Study
9 years, 1 month ago

PM Modi's smart cities need investment of over $150 billion: Study

India TV News  

Mumbai: The Modi government's vision of creating 100 smart cities will require an investment of over $150 billion over the next few years with private sector being a significant contributor, says a report. The government has already initiated two programmes with an initial outlay of $7.513 billion for 'Smart Cities Mission' and the 'Atal Mission for Rejuvenation of Urban Transformation …

Chouhan thanks PM, Naidu for 3 MP cities in Smart City project
9 years, 1 month ago

Chouhan thanks PM, Naidu for 3 MP cities in Smart City project

The Hindu  

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister for Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu for including Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur under the ‘Smart City’ project. Describing it as a matter of immense pride for the state, Mr. Chouhan thanked Mr. Modi and Mr. Naidu on behalf of the citizens of …

As 20 cities gear up for smart makeover, it is a bonanza for real estate: All you need to know
9 years, 1 month ago

As 20 cities gear up for smart makeover, it is a bonanza for real estate: All you need to know

Firstpost  

The government on Thursday released the list of 20 cities that have won the smart city challenge, with Bhubaneswar getting the first rank. “The idea of smart cities has aroused an unprecedented enthusiasm ever since it was first mooted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014,” Naidu said at the presser. “The really smart cities will build on the effort …

Rs 29,647 crore proposals for 'Smart City' projects; Mumbai's lowest
9 years, 1 month ago

Rs 29,647 crore proposals for 'Smart City' projects; Mumbai's lowest

Firstpost  

Ten major cities in Maharashtra, including Mumbai, have submitted their estimated proposals worth Rs 29,647.45 crore for the Central government-funded ‘Smart City’ project. Mumbai: Ten major cities in Maharashtra, including Mumbai, have submitted their estimated proposals worth Rs 29,647.45 crore for the Central government-funded ‘Smart City’ project. The ‘Smart City’ proposal submitted by BMC has far lower estimate even than …

Uniqueness of India’s smart cities
9 years, 3 months ago

Uniqueness of India’s smart cities

Live Mint  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bold commitment to build 100 smart cities throughout India is a worthy centrepiece of his urban agenda. Nevertheless, the Indian smart city efforts need to recognize the economic differences between its cities because off-the-shelf technology solutions are not viable and will vary in each market. Rather, smart cities require sharp self-awareness: each Indian smart city should …

Smart Cities Mission gets a French boost
9 years, 5 months ago

Smart Cities Mission gets a French boost

The Hindu  

In what may be seen as a good omen for >Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Smart Cities Mission, the French government has shown great interest in the flagship urban development programme with AFD — French Development Agency — rolling out a whopping loan of 2 billion Euros for three cities: Puducherry, Nagpur and Chandigarh. The Ambassador of France, Mr. François Richier …

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