Among the cities that have fully implemented their projects are Agra, Varanasi, Madurai, Coimbatore, Udaipur, Pune, Surat, and Vadodara
India's top metro cities need to improve their infrastructure and other civic amenities too.
The Centre has asked the state governments to nominate cities and towns for inclusion under Smart Cities Mission as the first stage of the competition has started.
To redevelop cities as 'smart', investment of at least $10 billion is required. For 100 cities, it works out to $1 trillion
IFC will act as a transaction advisor for the projects to be developed in the public-private partnership mode.
Kerala, Jammu & Kashmir seek more time.
States to give choices, Centre to decide by year-end.
IBM has chosen Surat, Allahabad and Vizag among 16 global locations for its smart cities programme.
Each smart city would get a Central assistance of Rs 100 crore per year for five years.
The announcement declaring New Delhi Municipal Council a winner of the smart city challenge came when the rest of Delhi was drowning in urban waste.
Smart city projects to be launched in June, other housing schemes to follow.
Smart Cities can be a success depending on the basic amenities it manages to provide citizens.
Barely 45.45 per cent of South Koreans achieve the recommended nightly rest, highlighting a growing wellness concern. Data from PlushCare places South Korea and several nations in the Middle East among seven nations where people consistently fall short of the expert-advised 8-9 hours of sleep each night, reflecting how modern routines are reshaping global rest patterns.
Government schemes such as the PM E-Drive initiative, with allocations of around Rs 2,000 crore for charging points deployment, are helping accelerate rollout
Nearly $120 bn will come from private sector
100 smart cities to become a reality as Cabinet approves the project, earmarks Rs 100 trillion for the purpose.
The Maharashtra municipal elections showed a troubling shift, where votes were traded for cash, convictions no longer mattered, and ideology became an afterthought, observes Ramesh Menon.
Government had declared the mission of creating 100 Smart Cities.
Sustaining 8 per cent-plus growth rates is necessary if we are to reach high-income status by 2047, points out Amitabh Kant.
India's cities are bursting at the seams because poor people are migrating to them in search of work.
Like Jamshedpur, many Indian cities that have been and will be properly planned can be smart cities of the future.
Surat had bagged the fourth rank under the Smart Cities Mission based on its proposal.
On Monday, the US delegation met Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu.
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The new capital of Andhra Pradesh is expected to be in the Vijayawada-Guntur region.
Airports and hotels are among the smartest buildings.
Modi govt is aiming to recast the urban landscape of the country by making cities more livable.
Of the five towns planned, work is progressing in two, Dasve and Mogao.
500 cities will be developed under AMRUT scheme.
The 'Smart city' programme is in danger of becoming cosmetic - creating showpieces instead of addressing endemic urban problems.
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Some experts believe that building new cities may not be the answer to India's swelling urban population.
US Ambassador Richard Verma's tips to the Indian states.
Of the 100 cities 20 were to get funding in 2015-16.
China has made serious inroads into Latin America, which the US may now be hinting is simply not ok: Stay in your lane, Xi! In simple terms, China will no longer have access to Venezuelan oil, points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
Pune, the city that made it to second spot in the Smart City Challenge competition earlier this year, is not new to the concept.
Realtors, consultants and foreign universities vie for big share.
'I met with a man who really wants to see New York be great again. I think he can bring it back. I think he wants to make it greater than ever before, and if he can, we'll be out there cheering. I'll be cheering for him.'
'India needs at least 70,000 to 80,000 eyewear stores; our 2,000 stores are just a drop in the ocean.'
Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur and Surat are among 20 cities selected in the first batch to be developed as 'smart cities'.
Nayagam PP, a certified career counsellor and the founder of EduJob360, lists the top and emerging career streams in engineering.
The current government must first improve condition in existing citis then take a plunge into making newer cities smart.
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