100 Smart Cities Project

Six years after the Smart Cities Mission was launched by the Centre, only 46 per cent out of the 6,000-odd projects tendered, have been completed.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday tweeted that his party would make Mayoral elections direct, since good leaders are needed to build smart cities. Ahead of the 2014 national election, the BJP had promised to build 100 smart cities. But while 98 cities have been selected by the government for the flagship project, and Rs 500 crore allocated for ...

The world's oldest living city is getting a makeover. The holy city of Varanasi is one of 100 places earmarked to receive trillions of rupees to transform their ageing infrastructure and become ' Smart Cities,' replete with affordable housing, improved sanitation, and better transportation.

Demanding more funds from the Centre under the Smart City project, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today sought Rs 2,500 crore for the city even as he announced the construction of an elevated road here at the cost of Rs 1,100 crore.

Government has announced Rs 48,000 crore for development of 100 Smart cities out of which 98 names were declared and rest two will be nominated in due course.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has asked the Centre to develop seven cities in the state under the Smart City project, after being alloted only one from the lot of 100 cities to be developed across the country.

PM Modi on Thursday launched three projects -- 100 smart cities, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Housing for All -- which will entail an investment of over Rs 3 lakh crore in the next five years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch three ambitious schemes today, which are aimed at developing cities and towns as "new engines for growth", projects which will entail an investment of over Rs 3 lakh crore in the next five years.

Contours have been worked out for the 100 smart cities project and the flagship programme will be launched any day, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said in Hyderabad today.

Even as the Union Cabinet gave its nod to NDA government's flagship smart city project last month, no city from Maharashtra has yet been included in the programme as the Centre's guidelines are awaited for it, an official said.

Urban dwellers will double to more than 800 million by 2050, a scale of mass urbanisation only seen before in China. Ahead of PM Modi's election last May, he vowed to construct 100 so-called "smart" cities by 2022, an infrastructure project some estimate would cost $1 trillion (Rs 63 lakh crore).

Narendra Modi used a BJP strategy meet on Sunday to unveil his vision for the country ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, promising to develop 100 smart cities and set up IITs, IIMs and an AIIMS in every state. His key agenda - to project India as a brand worldwide.

Six years after the Smart Cities Mission was launched by the Centre, only 46 per cent out of the 6,000-odd projects tendered, have been completed.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday tweeted that his party would make Mayoral elections direct, since good leaders are needed to build smart cities. Ahead of the 2014 national election, the BJP had promised to build 100 smart cities. But while 98 cities have been selected by the government for the flagship project, and Rs 500 crore allocated for ...

The world's oldest living city is getting a makeover. The holy city of Varanasi is one of 100 places earmarked to receive trillions of rupees to transform their ageing infrastructure and become ' Smart Cities,' replete with affordable housing, improved sanitation, and better transportation.

Demanding more funds from the Centre under the Smart City project, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today sought Rs 2,500 crore for the city even as he announced the construction of an elevated road here at the cost of Rs 1,100 crore.

Government has announced Rs 48,000 crore for development of 100 Smart cities out of which 98 names were declared and rest two will be nominated in due course.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has asked the Centre to develop seven cities in the state under the Smart City project, after being alloted only one from the lot of 100 cities to be developed across the country.

PM Modi on Thursday launched three projects -- 100 smart cities, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Housing for All -- which will entail an investment of over Rs 3 lakh crore in the next five years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch three ambitious schemes today, which are aimed at developing cities and towns as "new engines for growth", projects which will entail an investment of over Rs 3 lakh crore in the next five years.

Contours have been worked out for the 100 smart cities project and the flagship programme will be launched any day, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said in Hyderabad today.

Even as the Union Cabinet gave its nod to NDA government's flagship smart city project last month, no city from Maharashtra has yet been included in the programme as the Centre's guidelines are awaited for it, an official said.

Urban dwellers will double to more than 800 million by 2050, a scale of mass urbanisation only seen before in China. Ahead of PM Modi's election last May, he vowed to construct 100 so-called "smart" cities by 2022, an infrastructure project some estimate would cost $1 trillion (Rs 63 lakh crore).

Narendra Modi used a BJP strategy meet on Sunday to unveil his vision for the country ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, promising to develop 100 smart cities and set up IITs, IIMs and an AIIMS in every state. His key agenda - to project India as a brand worldwide.