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Mission smart city
The Times of India, May 02 2015
Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi had announced his vision to set up 100 smart cities across the country soon after his government was sworn into power mid last year. Since then a race has been on among cities to land on the list that the ministry of urban development is compiling. The 100 smart cities mission intends to promote adoption of smart solutions for efficient use of available assets, resources and infrastructure. Dipak Dash explains what these smart cities are and how they will work
Smart city list
The Times of India, Aug 01 2015
Dipak Dash
Smart city list: Smaller cousins pip metros
State capitals which include Lucknow, Mumbai, Gandhinagar, Jaipur, Vijaywada, Bhubaneswar, Raipur and Guwahati have made it to the smart cities list while Patna, Kolkata and Bengaluru have not found place in the list of top 100 nominations. All Union Territories have nominated their names, including Delhi. Rather some of the lesser known cities and municipal areas such as Bihar Sharif in Bihar, Moradabad and Saharanpur in UP, Dharamsala in Himachal, Shivamogga in Karnataka have been nominated by the states.Sources in the urban development ministry said the big cities have not made it to the list because of the selection criteria. “States have been selected based on an objec tive mechanism. Cities with better capability to implement projects and generate their own resources have been selected. It's a move towards transparency and fair competition where none can influence the selection process,“ said an urban development ministry official.
In the first phase, Centre will pick 20 cities and in the next two years 40 cities each will be selected for receiving central funding of Rs 500 crore spread over the next five years. So, eventually all the cities and municipal areas nominated for this scheme will be developed as smart cities.
Nomination of smart cities, UP
The Times of India, Aug 09 2015
Dipak Dash
Rae Bareli, Meerut tie for 13th UP slot
The race to be Uttar Pradesh's 13th smart city has ended in a tie between Meerut and Rae Bareli, and the Samajwadi Party government has decided to leave the final call to the Centre. Quite evidently, the state government appears torn between picking the bustling western UP township and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency . The Yadavs are apparently wary of displeasing Sonia by picking Meerut, which they see as their political passport to the state's western region.
The list containing names of 14 cities nominated by the UP government was discussed at a meeting recently where the apex committee also went through all the nominations from other states and Union Territories. UP was asked to nominate 13 cities as per the criteria set by the Centre in consultation with states. But it sent 14. Sources said the state's high-level committee had recorded that both the municipal areas had an equal score, which is why UP nominated two cities for the 13th position. Top officials of the UP government said they had sent the names to the Centre, and the ball was now in its court.
Sources said it would be tough for the Centre to accommodate both, since it would open the floodgates for other states to nominate more names. For example, the Jammu and Kashmir government has also been demanding an increase in its quota to two cities, since it is the only state with two capitals.
At 13, UP has the highest share of cities it can nominate, followed by TN with 12, and Maharashtra with 10. The quota was based on a formula that gives equal weight to population and the number of “statutory towns“ in each stateUT.
