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Centre releases list of 98 cities for Smart City project

TN gets 12 cities; Jammu and Kashmir and UP still have to nominate one cityeach; Mumbai, Bengaluru and Patna don’t figure in the list.

Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu Thursday unveiled the list of 98 urban centres that will betransformed into 'smart cities' over the next five years.

In an intra-state competition, Uttar Pradesh topped the list with its 13 urban areas meeting the smart-citiescriteria, followed by Tamil Nadu, which got an approval for developing 12 towns into smart cities.

“In the next couple of days,” said Mr. Naidu while addressing a press conference, “we will release Rs. 2 Crores foreach of the 98 cities for preparation of smart city plans.”

The Ministry, Mr. Naidu said, has set up region-wise panels of “reputed agencies for assisting smart city aspirants”to draft the plans of developing the qualified urban centres.

Out of 98 cities and towns that five years down will graduate into smart cities, 24 are capital cities, another 24 arebusiness and industrial centres, 18 are culture and tourism influenced areas, five are port cities and three areeducation and health care hubs.

About nine major cities such as Bengaluru, Kolkata, Shimla, Puducherry, Daman, Patna, Itanagar,Thiruvananthapuram and Gangtok did not qualify the smart city criteria. “This non-inclusion goes to prove that theselection in the first stage of competition was not swayed by the status or importance of the cities and theselection was objective and as per the stipulated criteria,” Mr. Naidu said.

Mr. Naidu said that the Urban Development Ministry will provide Rs. 100 Crores to each city over the next fiveyears.

The success of the government’s Smart City Mission is largely dependent upon the finance generation at the Statelevel as well as private investments. The central government has set aside Rs. 48,000 crores for the mission andthe money will be released to urban local bodies in frequent intervals in the next five years. The centralgovernment has asked the State governments to generate the rest of the Rs. 48,000 crores as the grand total ofthe mission is estimated at Rs. 96,000 crores.

Sl.No. Name ofState/UT

No. ofcitiesshortlisted

Names of selected cities Population of Cities

1. Andaman &Nicobar Islands

1 Port Blair 1,40,572

2. AndhraPradesh

3 1. Vishakhapatnam/ 2. Tirupati/3. Kakinada

1.18,78,980/ 2. 3,74,260/ 3.3,50,968/

3. ArunachalPradesh

1 Pasighat 26,656

4. Assam 1 Guwahati 9,62,334

5. Bihar 3 1. Muzaffarpur/ 2. Bhagalpur/3. Biharsharif

1. 3,93,724/ 2. 4,10,210/ 3.2,96,889

6. Chandigarh 1 Chandigarh 10,55,450

7. Chhattisgarh 2 1. Raipur/ 2. Bilaspur 1. 10,47,389/ 2. 3,65,579

8. Daman andDiu

1 Diu 23,991

9. Dadra andNagar Haveli

1 Silvassa 98,032

10. Delhi 1 New Delhi Muncipal Council 2,49,998

11. Goa 1 Panaji 1,00,000

12. Gujarat 6 1. Gandhinagar/ 2.Ahmedabad/ 3. Surat/ 4.Vadodara/ 5. Rajkot/ 6. Dahod

1. 2,92,797/ 2. 55,77,940/ 3.44,67,797/ 4. 17,52,371/ 5.13,23,363/ 6. 1,30,530

13. Haryana 2 1. Karnal/ 2. Faridabad 1. 3,02,140/ 2. 14,14,050

14. HimachalPradesh

1 Dharamshala 22,580

15. Jharkhand 1 Ranchi 10,73,427

16. Karnataka 6 1. Mangaluru/ 2. Belagavi/ 3.Shivamogga/ 4. Hubbali -Dharwad/ 5. Tumakuru/ 6.Davanagere

1. 4,84,785/ 2. 4,88,292/ 3.3,22,428/ 4. 9,43,857/ 5.3,05,821/ 6. 4,35,128

17. Kerala 1 Kochi 6,01,574

18. Lakshwadweep 1 Kavaratti 11,210

19. MadhyaPradesh

7 1. Bhopal/ 2. Indore/ 3.Jabalpul/ 4. Gwalior/ 5. Sagar/6. Satna/ 7. Ujjain

1. 19,22,130/ 2. 21,95,274/ 3.12,16,445/ 4. 11,59,032/ 5.2,73,296/ 6. 2,80,222/ 7.5,15,215

20. Maharashtra 10. 1. Navi Mumbai/ 2. Nashik/ 3.Thane/ 4. Greater Mumbai/ 5.Amravati/ 6. Solapur/ 7.Nagpur/ 8. Kalyan-Dombivilli/9. Aurangabad/ 10. Pune

1. 11, 19, 000/ 2. 14,86,000/ 3.18,41,000/ 4. 1,24,00,000/ 5.7,45,000/ 6. 9,52,000/ 7.24,60,000/ 8. 15,18,000/ 9.11,65,000/ 10. 31,24,000/

21. Manipur 1 Imphal 2,68,243

22. Meghalaya 1 Shillion 3,54,325

23. Mizoram 1 Aizwal 2,91,000

24. Nagaland 1 Kohima 1,07,000

25. Odisha 2 1. Bhubaneshwar/ 2. Raurkela 1. 8,40,834/

26. Puducherry 1 Oulgaret 3.00,104

27. Punjab 3 1. Ludhiana/ 2. Jalandhar/ 3.Amritsar

1. 16,18,874/ 2. 8,68,181/ 3.11,55,664

28. Rajasthan 4 1. Jaipur/ 2. Udaipur/ 3. Kota/4. Ajmer

1. 30,73,350/ 2. 4,75,150 3.10,01,365/ 4. 5,51,360

29. Sikkim 1 Namchi 12,190

30. Tamil Nadu 12 1. Tiruchurapalli/ 2. Tirunelveli/3. Dindigul/ 4. Thanjavur/ 5.Tiruppur/ 6. Salem/ 7. Vellore/8. Coimbatore/ 9. Madurai/ 10.Erode/ 11. Thoothukudi/ 12.Chennai

1. 9,19,974/ 2. 4,74,838/ 3.2,07,327/ 4. 2,22,943/ 5.8,77,778/ 6. 8,31,038/ 7.5,04,079/ 8. 16,01,438/ 9.15,61,129/ 10. 4,98,129/ 11.3,70,896/ 12. 67,27,000

31. Telangana 2 1. Greater Hyderabad 2.Greater Warangal

1. 67,31,790/ 2. 8,19,406

32. Tripura 1 Agartala 4,00,004

33. UttarPradesh**

12 1. Moradabad/ 2. Aligarh/ 3.Shaharanpur/ 4. Bareilly/ 5.Jhansi/ 6. Kanpur/ 7.Allahabad/ 8. Lucknow/ 9.Varanasi/ 10. Ghaziabad/ 11.Agra/ 12. Rampur

1. 8,87,871/ 2. 8,74,408/ 3.7,05,478/ 4. 9,03,668/ 5.5,05,693/ 6. 27,65,348/ 7.11,12,544/ 8. 28,17,105/ 9.11,98,491/ 10. 16,48,643/ 11.15,85,704/ 12. 3,35,313

34. Uttarakhand 1 Dehradun 5,83,971

35. West Bengal 4 1. New Town Kolkata/ 2.Bidhannagar/ 3. Duragapur/ 4.Haldia

1. 36,541/ 2. 6,33,704/ 3.5,71,000/ 4. 2,72,000

*Jammu and Kashmir has asked for more time to decide on the potential Smart City.

** 12 cities have been shortlisted from Uttar Pradesh against 13 cities allocated to the State.

Keywords: Smart cities, Smart City Project, 100 Smart Cities