HIGHLIGHTS
23 towns participated in ‘rapid tune opposition‘ for smart cities.
only 13 towns ought to qualify to be developed as clever cities.
total variety of towns inside the listing to come to be smart is 33 now.
The government on Tuesday announced the names of 13 extra towns in order to be evolved under the Centre’s ‘smart town mission‘ with Lucknow in poll–bound Uttar Pradesh topping the list, accompanied by using Warangal in Telangana and Dharmashala in Himachal Pradesh.
Twenty-3 towns with the better ratings from as many states and Union terrritories, which did not getillustration in the first round of a opposition held in January, participated inside the ‘fast tunecompetition‘, the end result of which was announced through urban improvement Minister M Venkaiah Naidu Tuesday.
of these 23 towns, handiest 13 may want to qualify for the clever metropolis projects thru the sparklingcompetition.
different cities, which gained this spherical, had been Chandigarh, Raipur (Chhattisgarh), New metropolisKolkata, Bhagalpur (Bihar), Panaji (Goa), Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Imphal (Manipur), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Agartala (Tripura) and Faridabad (Haryana).
“The 13 towns selected inside the speedy tune opposition have proposed a complete investment of Rs 30,229 crore. With this, the investment proposed with the aid of 33 towns (20 cities announced in January and 13 cities today) below the clever metropolis plans is now Rs. 80,789 crores,” Naiduinstructed a press conference.
Seven capital towns – Patna (Bihar), Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh), Bengaluru (Karnataka) and Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) – which have been not protected within the a hundred towns shortlisted for the opposition could be ableto participate inside the subsequent spherical with different towns, the minister stated.
also, one out of Meerut and Rai Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh and any other out of Jammu and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir might additionally be decided on for assessment below the venture, he brought.
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