Smart Cities announced: AP & TS gets FIVE The Union Government on Thursday announced a list of 98 smart cities as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious Smart Cities Mission. Union Minister of Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu released the list of 98 cities.
The list' includes' 24 Capital cities of states (Jammu & Kashmir not included). Majority share goes to Uttar Pradesh (13 cities) and Tamil Nadu(12 cities). Coming to Telugu speaking states, only 3 smart cities have been picked from the state of Andhra Pradesh and 2 from newly formed' Telangana.
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Centre has reserved' Rs 48,000 crore for development of 100 smart cities. Each smart city will get a Central assistance of Rs. 100 crore per year for five years.The cities were selected through intra-city competition evaluated on parameters such as service levels, financial and institutional capacity, past track record and reforms.
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Below is the List of smart cities announced by union ministry
Andaman and Nicobar Islands 1 (Port Blair)
Andhra Pradesh 3 (Vishakhapatnam, Tirupati, Kakinada)
Arunachal Pradesh 1 (Pasighat)
Assam 1 (Guwahati)
Bihar 3 (Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur, Biharsharif)
Chandigarh 1
Chhattisgarh 2 (Raipur, Bilaspur)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1 (Silvassa)
Daman and Diu 1 (Diu)
Delhi 1 (NDMC)
Goa 1 (Panaji)
Gujarat 6 (Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Dahod)
Haryana 2 (Karnal Faridabad)
Himachal Pradesh 1 (Dharamshala)
Jharkhand 1 (Ranchi)
Karnataka 6 (Mangaluru, Belagavi, Shivamogga, Hubballi-Dharwad, Tumakuru, Davanegere)
Kerala 1 (Kochi)
Lakshadweep 1 (Kavarrati)
Madhya Pradesh 7 (Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Sagar, Satna, Ujjain)
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Maharashtra 10 (Navi Mumbai, Nashik, Thane, Greater Mumbai, Amravati, Solapur, Nagpur, Kalyan-Dombivali, Aurangabad, Pune )
Manipur 1 (Imphal)
Meghalaya 1 (Shillong)
Mizoram 1 (Aizawl)
Nagaland 1 (Kohima)
Odisha 2 (Bhubaneshwar, Raurkela)
Puducherry 1 (Oulgaret)
Punjab 3 (Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar)
Rajasthan 4 (Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota, Ajmer)
Sikkim 1 (Namchi)
Tamil Nadu 12 (Tiruchirapalli, Chennai, Tiruppur, Coimbatore, Vellore, Salem, Erode,' Thanjavur, Tirunelveli, Dindigul, Madurai, Thoothukudi)
Telangana 2 (Greater Hyderabad, Greater Warangal)
Tripura 1 (Agartala)
Uttar Pradesh 13 (Moradabad, Aligarh, Saharanpur, Bareilly, Jhansi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Agra, Rampur)
Uttarakhand 1 (Dehradun)
West Bengal 4 (New Town Kolkata, Bidhannagar, Durgapur, Haldia)
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News Posted: 27 August, 2015
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