Neighbouring Manipur has got two Smart cities – Bishnupur and Chandel, whereas cities like Dimapur and Kohima in Nagaland finds no mention in the smart cities list proposed by the union Government.
The Union Cabinet today approved 100 Smart City Projects. The Smart City vision was announced by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the first Union Budget of NDA government in July last year.
‘Smart City’ is an initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take the pressure off Indian metros. Ahead of general election last year, Modi had promised 100 smart cities by 2022 to help meet the rush.
Here goes the list of cities that have been proposed by Union Cabinet to be upgraded to smart cities:
1. Pune – Maharashtra
2. Mumbai – Maharashtra
3. Nagpur – Maharashtra
4. Nashik – Maharashtra
5. Aurangabad – Maharashtra
6. Bhivandi – Maharashtra
7. Calcutta – West Bengal
8. Durgapur – West Bengal
9. Haldia – West Bengal
10. Habra – West Bengal
11. Jangipur – West Bengal
12. Ahmedabad – Gujarat
13. Surat – Gujarat
14. Vadodara – Gujarat
15. Rajkot – Gujarat
16. Bhavnagar – Gujarat
17. Junagadh – Gujarat
18. Gandhi Nagar – Gujarat
19. Bhopal – Madhya Pradesh
20. Indore – Madhya Pradesh
21. Gwalior – Madhya Pradesh
22. Burhanpur – Madhya Pradesh
23. Jabalpur – Madhya Pradesh
24. Chennai – Tamil Nadu
25. Coimbatore – Tamil Nadu
26. Madurai – Tamil Nadu
27. Tiruchirappalli – Tamil Nadu
28. Salem – Tamil Nadu
29. Tirunelveli – Tamil Nadu
30. Bangalore – Karnataka
31. Gulbarga – Karnataka
32. Bidar – Karnataka
33. Bijapur – Karnataka
34. Badami – Karnataka
35. Pattadakal – Karnataka
36. Mahakuta – Karnataka
37. Thiruvananthapuram – Kerala
38. Kollam – Kerala
39. Kottayam – Kerala
40. Tiruvalla – Kerala
41. Ernakulam – Kerala
42. Cochin – Kerala
43. Thrissur – Kerala
44. Hyderabad – Telangana
45. Warangal – Telangana
46. Karimnagar – Telangana
47. Nizamabad – Telaganana
48. Nalgonda – Telangana
49. Guntur – Andhra Pradesh
50. Vijayawada – Andhra Pradesh
51. Kurnool – Andhra Pradesh
52. Chittoor – Andhra Pradesh
53. Kanpur – Uttar Pradesh
54. Allahabad – Uttar Pradesh
55. Lucknow – Uttar Pradesh
56. Jhansi – Uttar Pradesh
57. Faizabad – Uttar Pradesh
58. Varanasi – Uttar Pradesh
59. Jaipur – Rajasthan
60. Ajmer – Rajasthan
61. Bharatpur – Rajasthan
62. Bikaner – Rajasthan
63. Jodhapur – Rajasthan
64. Kota – Rajasthan
65. Udipur – Rajasthan
66. Ludhiana – Punjab
67. Amritsar – Punjab
68. Jalandhar – Punjab
69. Patiala – Punjab
70. Muzaffarapur – Bihar
71. Patna – Bihar
72. Gaya – Bihar
73. Bhagalpur – Bihar
74. Bihar Sharif – Bihar
75. Faridabad – Haryana
76. Gurgaon – Haryana
77. Panipat – Haryana
78. Ambala – Haryana
79. Guwahati – Assam
80. Tinsukia – Assam
81. Odalguri – Assam
82. Tangla – Assam
83. Goalpara – Assam
84. Bhubaneswar – Odisha
85. Cuttack – Odisha
86. Rourkela – Odisha
87. Sambalpur – Odisha
88. Balasore – Odisha
89. Shimla – Himachal Pradesh
90. Dehradoon – Uttarakhand
91. Haridwar – Uttarakhand
92. Roorkee – Uttarakhand
93. Jamshedpur – Jharkhand
94. Dhanbad – Jharkhand
95. Ranchi – Jharkhand
96. Gangtok – Sikkim
97. Pelling – Sikkim
98. Yuksam – Sikkim
99. Bishnupur – Manipur
100. Chandel – Manipur
What is a Smart city?
– A city equipped with basic infrastructure to give a decent quality of life, a clean and sustainable environment through application of some smart solutions.
– Assured water and electricity supply, sanitation and solid waste management, efficient urban mobility and public transport, robust IT connectivity, e-governance and citizen participation, safety and security of citizens.
– Public information, grievance redressal, electronic service delivery, citizens’ engagement, waste to energy & fuel, waste to compost, 100% treatment of waste water, smart meters & management, monitoring water quality, renewable source of energy, efficient energy and green building, smart parking, intelligent traffic management system.
– The next step is identification of the 100 cities and for this a city challenge competition to be conducted by Bloomberg Philanthropies is envisaged. The current plan looks to select 20 cities this year followed by 40 each in the next two years.
– It is part of the US-based Smart Cities Council, which is a consortium of smart city practitioners and experts, with a 100-plus member and advisor organizations operating in over 140 countries.
– After government announces the guidelines, states will be asked to nominate names of cities for a ‘City Challenge Competition’ and the chosen ones will get Central fund of Rs 100 crore each year for 5 years.
– Retrofitting 500 acres: Planning in an existing built-up area in a municipal ward, preparing plan with citizen participation (example: Connaught Place in Delhi, Bhendi Bazar in Mumbai).
– Greenfield 250 acres: Introduce smart solutions in a vacant area using innovative planning (example: land pooling/land reconstitution in Outer Delhi, GIFT city in Gujarat).
– Redevelopement 50 acres: Replacement of existing built-up area and preparing a new layout plan with enhanced infrastructure by way of mixed land use (example: Kidwai Nagar in Delhi).
– A Special Purpose Vehicle will be created for each city to implement Smart City action plan. The SPV will be signed with the urban local body, state government and the Centre for implementation of the project.