Smart City Updates
30 new Smart Cities declared
On the occasion of the second anniversary of the launch of the Smart Cities Mission, 30 more smart cities have been added to the Centre’s programme taking the count of total number of smart cities to 90. This was announced by Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday. He also he stated that total investment involved in the smart cities amounted to Rs. 57,393 crore. Amongst the freshly selected cities, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala emerged as the winner of the challenge. The other cities selected are Naya Raipur in Chhattisgarh, Rajkot in Gujarat, Amravati in Andhra Pradesh, Patna in Bihar, Karimnagar in Telangana, Muzaffarpur in Bihar, Puducherry, Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, Sagar in Madhya Pradesh, Karnal in Haryana, Satna in Madhya Pradesh, Bengaluru in Karnataka, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, Dehradun in Uttarakhand, Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, Pimpri Chinchwad in Maharashtra, Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu in J&K, Dahod in Gujarat, Tirunelveli, Thootukkudi and Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, Aizawl in Mizoram, Allahabad and Aligarh in U.P. and Gangtok in Sikkim.
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