Chouhan thanks PM, Naidu for 3 MP cities in Smart City project
9 years, 2 months 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 the three cities, an official statement said on Friday. The Chief Minister said the NDA government’s novel concept of Smart Cities generated a healthy competition among cities to improve civic services in larger public interest. Madhya Pradesh is the only state in the country whose maximum cities have been included in the list of first 20 Smart Cities shortlisted by the Central government.

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Shivraj Singh Chouhan hails Madhya Pradesh budget, praises CM Yadav and Devda
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Shivraj Singh Chouhan hails Madhya Pradesh budget, praises CM Yadav and Devda

Hindustan Times  

Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday hailed the budget presented by the Madhya Pradesh government, stating that it will give impetus and new direction to the development of the state. "I heartily congratulate state Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Jagdish Devda for the budget. New Delhi, Feb 11 : Union Minister for Agriculture …

CM seeks full central funding for Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada Metro Rail projects
3 weeks, 2 days ago

CM seeks full central funding for Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada Metro Rail projects

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada:Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met Union Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in Delhi on Thursday and sought early implementation of the Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada Metro Rail projects. Naidu also highlighted the disparity, noting that Hyderabad’s Metro Rail was approved before bifurcation, while the Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada's projects remained pending. Citing AP’s financial constraints post-bifurcation, Naidu pleaded for full …

PM Modi to launch development projects in Andhra Pradesh
2 months, 3 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. …

Will new cities be added under 'Smart Cities Mission'? Check Modi govt's response
3 months, 1 week 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 …

Cabinet gives nod for 12 industrial smart cities covering 10 states with Rs 28,602 crore investment
7 months ago

Cabinet gives nod for 12 industrial smart cities covering 10 states with Rs 28,602 crore investment

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Taking a step forward in the manufacturing ecosystem, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved 12 industrial smart cities across the country. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, "Cabinet today approved 12 Industrial Smart Cities under National Industrial Corridor Development Programme. "India to soon have a grand necklace of Industrial Smart Cities on the …

Nizamabad people seek smart city funds
7 months, 4 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 …

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 …

Indian cities planning to be kid-inclusive
1 year, 1 month ago

Indian cities planning to be kid-inclusive

Hindustan Times  

Play is crucial for children’s happiness and well-being, for them to develop motor skills, for their cognitive and emotional development, and for them to understand their environment, believe experts. “One of the goals is to have play opportunities for children within 500 metres from any area in the city,” Jabalpur Smart City CEO Chandrapratap Gohil said, adding that the masterplan …

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 …

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 …

Andhra Pradesh: Anantapur will have Smart Street soon, says Mayor
2 years, 4 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Anantapur will have Smart Street soon, says Mayor

The Hindu  

Anantapur will have a ‘Smart Street’, thanks to the Anantapur Municipal Corporation that proposes to arrange facilities for public and improve greenery along the 1.5 k.m. “We will arrange footpaths, bus shelters, side drains and central lighting and greenery up to the turning point for Super Specialty Hospital near JNTUA Campus,” Mr. Waseem said. The AMC has earmarked ₹20 lakh …

Madhya Pradesh: BJP creates history in local polls, Congress' support base erodes further
2 years, 8 months ago

Madhya Pradesh: BJP creates history in local polls, Congress' support base erodes further

India TV News  

Highlights BJP emerged victorious in the just concluded Janpad Panchayat elections in Madhya Pradesh BJP bagged five places while Congress and AAP in two other cities BJP has bagged all 3,468 wards of Nagar Nigam, Nagar Palika and Nagar Parishad in the state Madhya Pradesh Janpad Panchayat Election Results: The Bharatiya Janata Party has scripted a thumping victory in the …

Indore, Surat win big at Smart Cities Awards 2020, UP top performer among states
3 years, 9 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 …

Yogi Adityanath announces plans for 'country's biggest film city' in Noida
4 years, 6 months ago

Yogi Adityanath announces plans for 'country's biggest film city' in Noida

Firstpost  

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday announced to set up the country’s “biggest” film city in the state’s Gautam Buddh Nagar, officials said. “The CM, while addressing a review meeting, announced to set up the biggest and most beautiful film city of the country in Gautam Buddh Nagar. The CM gave the directions during a review meeting of …

Centre to release report card of ’smart cities’ in June
5 years, 2 months ago

Centre to release report card of ’smart cities’ in June

Live Mint  

Visakhapatnam: The central government will release a report card of 100 selected smart cities in three categories -- ease of living, municipal performance index and climate -- in June as the Smart Cities Mission completes its five years. According to the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, it will help cities in better planning and moving towards data-driven governance that …

Urban renaissance imperative for economic growth: Venkaiah Naidu
6 years, 6 months ago

Urban renaissance imperative for economic growth: Venkaiah Naidu

India TV News  

Lamenting that India's urban affairs had been in a mess and in a neglected state for years, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, on Wednesday said that urban renaissance is the need of the hour which will help the country move forward economically. He was speaking at the three-day international conference, "Smart City Expo India 2018", organised in Jaipur by trade …

Will make MP cities better than US: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
6 years, 8 months ago

Will make MP cities better than US: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

India TV News  

Will make MP cities better than US: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan Chouhan had also claimed that India and Madhya Pradesh were way ahead of the US in terms of women empowerment. Drawing a parallel between the US and Madhya Pradesh once again, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that his government would make cities in the state, going to …

Narendra Modi says Congress tradition of vote-bank politics fading
6 years, 9 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 …

Narendra Modi to launch several development projects in Madhya Pradesh today, including transport and drinking water schemes
6 years, 9 months ago

Narendra Modi to launch several development projects in Madhya Pradesh today, including transport and drinking water schemes

Firstpost  

In Madhya Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also present awards to the winners of cleanliness survey, Swachh Survekshan 2018. Modi will dedicate the Mohanpura Irrigation Project in Rajgarh district to the people of the state and also inaugurate several other projects, including an urban transport scheme named ‘Sutra Seva’ in Indore, a government public relations officer said. The prime …

Narendra Modi to visit Madhya Pradesh tomorrow: PM to launch development projects, inaugurate urban transport scheme
6 years, 9 months ago

Narendra Modi to visit Madhya Pradesh tomorrow: PM to launch development projects, inaugurate urban transport scheme

Firstpost  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive on Saturday on a one-day visit during which he will launch several development projects, an official said on Friday. Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive on Saturday on a one-day visit during which he will launch several development projects, an official said on Friday. Modi will dedicate the Mohanpura Irrigation Project in Rajgarh …

Smart Cities Mission: Narendra Modi says govt committed Rs 2 lakh cr for development, but data shows only 0.09% spent
6 years, 10 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 …

Budget 2018: Promises of smart cities, employment and housing displaying little progress in India
7 years, 2 months ago

Budget 2018: Promises of smart cities, employment and housing displaying little progress in India

Firstpost  

Less than a quarter of central funds for four major national programmes for India’s urban renewal have been used. A further disaggregation of central funds data from the ministry of housing and urban affairs reveals: • Upto February 2017 – the last release of data – no more than 3 percent of smart-city projects were completed and 12 percent of …

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 …

Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu says India should focus on development, urges to restrict politics to elections
7 years, 6 months ago

Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu says India should focus on development, urges to restrict politics to elections

Firstpost  

India has enormous challenges but development should be the only focus, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday, adding politics should be confined to elections Mohali: India has enormous challenges but development should be the only focus, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu said on Friday, adding politics should be confined to elections. Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, Naidu said the father of the nation once …

Few smart cities will not make big difference, says VP Venkaiah Naidu
7 years, 6 months ago

Few smart cities will not make big difference, says VP Venkaiah Naidu

India TV News  

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today said unless all cities are made smart it will not make a "big difference" to the country and for this the participation of the people and stake holders is important. But for this purpose the participation of all the people and stake holders is important," Naidu said after bhoomi puja was held for the …

Shimla to get smart public transport system and eco-tourism boost with its Smart City budget
7 years, 9 months ago

Shimla to get smart public transport system and eco-tourism boost with its Smart City budget

Firstpost  

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on 23 June said promoting smart public transport, developing footpaths for pedestrians, eco-tourism and better management of natural springs will be the top priorities for restoring the glory of the state capital under the Smart Cities Mission. Complimenting the residents of Shimla for the city being included in the smart cities list of the …

100 Smart Cities: Three from UP, two from Bihar make it to new list of 30 cities
7 years, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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 …

Centre opens purse for Jharkhand, to invest `55,000 cr on road projects
8 years, 1 month ago

Centre opens purse for Jharkhand, to invest `55,000 cr on road projects

Hindustan Times  

The Centre opened its purse strings for development of Jharkhand during the maiden global investors’ summit in Ranchi, assuring it would spend `55,000 crore on its road projects alone, besides making huge investments in city development, power and textile sectors. Chief Minister Raghubar Das along with Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Industrialists- Ratan Tata, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Navin Jindal, …

Smart city mission: Delhi firm to help Allahabad fulfil its dream
8 years, 2 months ago

Smart city mission: Delhi firm to help Allahabad fulfil its dream

Hindustan Times  

Allahabad Nagar Nigam, which has been striving to secure a place for Allahabad in the list of smart cities ever since ‘Smart City Mission’ was launched in 2015, will now get assistance of Delhi-based consultants in this connection. This firm, which has in the past helped the New Delhi Municipal Corporation and the Varanasi Municipal Corporation prepare their smart city …

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 …

Smart City project in Indore to pick up pace from January
8 years, 3 months ago

Smart City project in Indore to pick up pace from January

Hindustan Times  

Execution of projects in Indore under the centrally “Consultants hired for the smart city project have submitted detailed project reports. Most probably, we will start executing the projects from January,” Indore Smart City Development Limited’s CEO Rohan Saxena said. Last month, ISCDL appointed Knight Frank India Pvt Ltd as project development and management consultant for area-based development project while global …

Indore stands out as role model for Smart City mission: Venkaiah Naidu
8 years, 5 months ago

Indore stands out as role model for Smart City mission: Venkaiah Naidu

Hindustan Times  

Union minister Venkaiah Naidu praised the Madhya Pradesh government for making remarkable progress in the Smart City mission, saying Indore stands out as a perfect example before the country in meeting challenges. Union minister for urban development Venkaiah Naidu addresses the closing ceremony of the summit at the Brilliant convention centre in Indore. Urban development minister Maya Singh informed the …

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 …

Politics stretches list of Smart Cities from 100 to 109
8 years, 8 months ago

Politics stretches list of Smart Cities from 100 to 109

The Hindu  

Contrary to his long-standing dictum of “ jitna aata, utni roti” — Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu is slowly yielding to political compulsions by allowing more cities to participate in the upcoming Smart City Mission competition. Peoples Democratic Party legislator Muhammad Ashraf Mir, who served as urban development minister in Jammu and Kashmir until March 2016, told The Hindu that …

Smart Cities Mission: Flaws in a flagship programme
8 years, 9 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 …

Modi launches Smart City projects in Jaipur, Udaipur via video-conference
8 years, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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 …

25th June News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day
8 years, 9 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 …

PM Modi to launch ‘Smart City Mission’ projects from Pune on June 25
8 years, 9 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 …

Mumbai, Delhi are not really ‘smart cities’, says global survey
8 years, 9 months ago

Mumbai, Delhi are not really ‘smart cities’, says global survey

Hindustan Times  

The national capital is not “smart”, neither are financial capital Mumbai, information technology hub Bengaluru and eastern India’s biggest city Kolkata. The 2016 Cities in Motion Index, prepared jointly by the Barcelona-based University of Navarrara’s IESE Business School and the Centre for Globalisation and Strategy, found Indian cities floundering on most parameters that defined a smart, livable city. Read | …

Lucknow, Warangal among 13 smart cities announced by govt.
8 years, 10 months ago

Lucknow, Warangal among 13 smart cities announced by govt.

The Hindu  

The Union government on Tuesday announced the names of 13 more cities that will be developed under the Centre’s “Smart City Mission.” Lucknow in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh tops the list, followed by Warangal in Telangana and Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh. Next round Seven cities — Patna, Shimla, Naya Raipur, Itanagar, Amaravati, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram — that were not among the …

Lucknow, Chandigarh, Agartala among 13 new smart cities picked by govt
8 years, 10 months ago

Lucknow, Chandigarh, Agartala among 13 new smart cities picked by govt

Hindustan Times  

Lucknow, New Town in Kolkata, Bhagalpur and Dharamsala are among the 13 urban centres picked to be developed as smart cities under the Modi government’s ambitious plan for an urban overhaul. In January, when the first 20 smart cities were announced the urban development ministry had come under fire for leaving out cities from non-NDA states such as Uttar Pradesh, …

Himachal eyes smart city crown for Shimla, urges Centre to support
8 years, 10 months ago

Himachal eyes smart city crown for Shimla, urges Centre to support

Firstpost  

Himachal Pradesh government has urged the Centre to include Shimla in Smart City mission and Dharamsala under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government has urged the Centre to include Shimla in Smart City mission and Dharamsala under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. Minister Sudhir Sharma on Tuesday met Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah …

40 cities to be selected in second round of smart city project: Govt to Rajya Sabha
8 years, 11 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 …

Mehbooba Mufti seeks inclusion of Srinagar, Jammu as smart cities
8 years, 11 months ago

Mehbooba Mufti seeks inclusion of Srinagar, Jammu as smart cities

India TV News  

New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here and sought inclusion of Srinagar and Jammu among smart cities besides allocation of an additional over four lakh metric tonnes of foodgrains to the state. She also sought Prime Minister’s intervention in expediting the Centre’s nod for continuation of special dispensation of 50 …

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