Smart cities: India
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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.
