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Venkaiah Naidu pushes for PPP model to construct smart cities

Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said in Gandhinagar on Monday that the union government is not in a position to make all investments for smart cities and hence the public-private partnership route would be necessary. Gandhinagar: Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said in Gandhinagar on Monday that the union government is not in a position to make all investments for smart cities and hence the public-private partnership route would be necessary. “The government will provide viability gap funding and will also facilitate whatever is necessary, but it has to be built through the PPP model only,” Naidu said at a session on building smart cities during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar here today. Naidu said that smart cities proposed by the Modi led government would be liveable as well as provide clean and healthy living conditions.

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