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Smart City Workshop - 40 of 98 cities participate

By TIOL News Service
 

NEW DELHI, SEPT 03, 2015: MINISTER of Urban Development M.Venkaiah Naidu today said that a Smart City is what the citizens want their city to be and the city level plans should be evolved based on extensive consultations with them. Smart City Plans will be evaluated in the second stage of City Challenge competition based on such consultations and their economic and environmental impacts.”

Mr Naidu was addressing the Smart City Regional Workshop held here today for ten Northern states and Gujarat to discuss various aspects of preparation of Smart City Plans and related issues. Mayors and Municipal Chairpersons and Municipal Commissioners from cities included in Smart City Mission and Principal Secretaries of Urban Development from these states besides representatives of domestic and global technical agencies and consultants and multi-lateral lending agencies attended the workshop. The participating states and Union Territories of Chandigarh, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat accounted for 40 of the 98 smart city candidates, 201 of 482 AMRUT cities and 5 of the 12 HRIDAY cities identified so far.

The Minister said that for realizing the India growth story, the urban areas of the country need to be improved in terms of infrastructure, urban governance to enhance business and economic activity and quality of life.


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