Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party is part of the BJP-led Mahayuti but the two parties are fighting the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad civic polls separately.
At present, 63 cities are covered under JNNURM, which was launched in 2005 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to improve the quality of life and infrastructure in cities.
It will be National Housing Mission which will be launched soon
According to industry sources, states are yet to clear their previous dues of Rs 2,000 crore.
Chairing a review meeting of Agra division, the chief minister made it clear that his government 'always nurtured nationalist ideology and anything which smacks of subservient mentality will be done away with', the UP government said in a statement.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley more than halved the central government's financial support.
Acute shortage of labour and migration towards social schemes like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), a large number of construction projects are lagging behind their completion schedules.
Right now the challenge before the government is to double the speed of construction in order to complete the remaining 6.6 million houses before March 2019.
Of the 538 projects examined, 294 suffered from cost overruns, 303 from time overruns, and 166 projects suffered both time as well as cost overruns.
100 smart cities to become a reality as Cabinet approves the project, earmarks Rs 100 trillion for the purpose.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed credit for the initiative to provide Wi-Fi facilities at railway stations as she hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' campaign.
P Chidambaram rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's veiled charge that Sonia Gandhi was an "unconstitutional authority."
The government will give a final shape to its proposed flagship scheme on developing '100 smart cities' next month.
Modi govt pushed very hard the concept of smart cities in 2014.
The government is currently holding consultations with all stakeholders including state governments, local bodies and those keen on developing smart cities.
Even if they score administratively, state governments ruled by the party suffer from an inability to communicate positively, say observers.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana envisages housing to 20 mn households by 2022.
The Centre will grant Rs 500 crore for each of the smart cities.
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Benchmark share indices ended lower on profit taking after they touched record highs in the previous session.
Sensex hit a record high of 27,225.85 and Nifty hit a record high of 8,141.90 in the intra-day trades today.
Implementation of the reforms through a special purpose vehicle is a way to seek greater accountability.
