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Smart Cities Mission led to 22% rise in school enrolment, improved crime tracking: IIM-B studies
2 weeks ago

Smart Cities Mission led to 22% rise in school enrolment, improved crime tracking: IIM-B studies

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, Steps taken under the Smart Cities Mission have led to a 22 per cent increase in school enrolment in 19 cities and improved real-time tracking of criminal activities, according to two studies by the Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru. Smart Cities Mission led to 22% rise in school enrolment, improved crime tracking: IIM-B studies According to one of …

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Centre extends Smart Cities Mission deadline till March 2025
6 months, 1 week 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 …

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Smart Cities Mission: 400 projects in over 10 cities may miss revised deadline
11 months, 3 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 …

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Chandigarh kick off Smart City CEOs meet
1 year, 8 months ago

Chandigarh kick off Smart City CEOs meet

Hindustan Times  

Chandigarh Smart City Limited in coordination with Smart Cities Mission of the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs, inaugurated a two-day “Smart cities CEOs conference on data and technology” in Chandigarh on Thursday. Speaking during the conference, CSCL chief executive officer Anindita Mitra, said, “The residents of Chandigarh will be experiencing new paradigms of business models, better services and …

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Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change
1 year, 8 months ago

Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change

The Hindu  

A quarter of all new public restrooms in Indian cities will soon have high-end features such as luxurious bath cubicles, touchless flushing, breast-feeding rooms, and automatic sanitary napkin incinerators. “A directive has been sent to all State governments to ensure that henceforth 25% of public toilet seats added in any city or urban unit are ‘aspirational toilets’,” sources in the …

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First 22 smart cities in India to be ready by March
1 year, 10 months 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 …

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Govt to launch 15-day campaign on Sept 17 to mark 8 years of Swachh Bharat Mission
2 years, 4 months ago

Govt to launch 15-day campaign on Sept 17 to mark 8 years of Swachh Bharat Mission

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry will launch a 15-day campaign on September 17 to mark the completion of eight years of the Swachh Bharat Mission, a statement said on Friday. "To mark completion of 8 successful years of PM @narendramodi Ji's visionary #SwachhBharatMission on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti this year, @MoHUA_India will launch #SwachhAmritMahotsav, a …

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PM Modi Launches Second Phase Of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban & AMRUT | Key Points
3 years, 3 months ago

PM Modi Launches Second Phase Of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban & AMRUT | Key Points

ABP News  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation via virtual conference on Friday. PM Modi further said that this 2nd phase of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 & AMRUT 2.0 is also an important step in fulfilling the dreams of BR Ambedkar. Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 …

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White House defends sending federal officers to US cities – but refuses to say what their mission is
4 years, 5 months ago

White House defends sending federal officers to US cities – but refuses to say what their mission is

The Independent  

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Corporation to develop Kurichi Tank under Smart Cities Mission
5 years, 2 months ago

Corporation to develop Kurichi Tank under Smart Cities Mission

The Hindu  

Finally, the Coimbatore Smart Cities Ltd. has decided to take up development of Kurichi Tank under the Smart Cities Mission. The CSCL Managing Director and Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner Sravan Kumar Jatavath told The Hindu that the company, a special purpose vehicle created to implement the Smart Cities Mission projects, would take up the work at ₹50 crore. The Corporation initially …

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Why the Smart Cities Mission will miss its deadline
5 years, 5 months ago

Why the Smart Cities Mission will miss its deadline

India Today  

According to the 2017-18 Economic Survey, India will require $4.5 trillion worth of infrastructure investment by 2040. According to the Smart Cities Mission statement, such urban areas must feature all core infrastructure required for citizens to have a decent quality of life and a sustainable environmental footprint. A reply by Housing minister Puri in Parliament confirmed that area-based development projects …

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