India's Smart Cities Mission has led to the development of innovative urban areas, with Bhubaneswar, Indore, Pune, and Ahmedabad emerging as top smart cities, enhancing infrastructure, sustainability, and quality of life through technology and strategic investments.
With the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections announced, we take a closer look at Karnal district, which has been favored by both BJP CMs, Manohar Lal Khattar and Nayab Singh Saini, over the past decade. From infrastructure to key projects, Karnal has seen significant development during their tenures.
Innovations of smart city projects running in 100 cities across the country will be shared during the conference and cities that are performing excellently will also be awarded.
National Smart City Award: Among the 66 winners in different categories, Madhya Pradesh has won the best 'State Award' and Tamil Nadu bagged the second spot. Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh were on the third spot jointly.
Model Economic Township Limited (MET City) is owned by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) but four Japanese companies are also involved in developing the mega project.
Uttar Pradesh urban development department is all set to commence work on a Greenfield township based on Vedic theme within a few weeks.
Indore and Surat got the award jointly in the urban category, while Uttar Pradesh won the state award. The three urban missions were announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 25, 2015.
The Rajkot Municipal Corporation has written to the Reserve Bank for the release of the Smart City Mission fund worth about Rs 160 crore stuck in the troubled private sector lender Yes Bank, Gujarat deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said on Saturday.
Google's sister company Sidewalk Labs is set to invest approx. $990 million to build a waterfront area in Toronto, Canada into a high-tech smart city.
The city now has integrated intelligent traffic signal system, wide roads, well maintained parks and better parking services, Deb said.
With the announcement, selection of all 100 smart cities is complete under the Smart Cities Mission.
A division bench of justices A S Oka and P N Deshmukh said it was a citizen's fundamental right to have good roads, streets and footpaths and people could not be deprived of their rights.
Rahul Gandhi said job creation should be the focus area of the government as China was "out-competing" India.
Some of the cities that have sent their proposals include Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Biharsharif (Bihar), Amravati (Maharashtra), Erode and Dindigal (Tamil Nadu), and Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad, Meerut, Saharanpur, Bareilly and Rampur, among others
The study used an 'extended urban metabolism model' as a means of analysing the area, providing a basis for measuring flows of resources that are both consumed by and flow from the city.
Under the Smart City Mission, the Centre provides Rs 500 crore to each city over a period of 5 years for implementing various projects.
Chinese telecom firm Huawei is in talks with the Indian government for its smart cities initiative, a top company official said today.
Wipro chief Azim Premji today expressed his disappointment over the implementation of the smart city project in India despite the fact that it got a lot of attention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched 83 Smart City projects in Pune. Of them, 14 projects are designated for Pune alone, and 69 projects are earmarked for 19 other cities across the country.
Hyderabad: Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate work on Smart City Projects from Pune on June 25. Naidu further said that work would start simultaneously
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