New cities in Smart list |
Lucknow, Faridabad, Dharmashala, Chandigarh, Raipur, New Town Kolkata, Panaji, Ranchi, Bhagalpur (in Bihar), and Warangal (in Telangana) are among the 13 new cities that have been selected under the Smart City scheme.The other cities included earlier were Port Blair, Imphal, and Agartala. The 20 cities that were announced when the government had started the "fast track competition" for 23 cities from an equal number of states since none of the cities nominated by them figured in the first list of top 10 smart cities. While announcing the new names Union Urban Development minister M Venkaiah Naidu, stated that these cities have proposed investments of Rs 30,299 crore. The earlier 20 cities had proposed an investment of Rs 50,560 crore.
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