National Smart Cities Mission is an urban renewal and

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program by the

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with the mission to develop

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across the country, making them citizen friendly and sustainable. The Union Ministry of Urban Development is responsible for implementing the mission in collaboration with the state governments of the respective cities. The mission initially included 100 cities, with the deadline for completion of the projects set between 2019 and 2023. The effective combined completion of all projects as of 2019 is at 11%. , 3577 projects out of total 6939 tendered projects have been completed, utilizing ₹60,073 crore out of total tendered amount of ₹191,294 crore.

Description

Smart Cities Mission envisions developing an area within the cities in the country as model areas based on an area development plan, which is expected to have a rub-off effect on other parts of the city, and nearby cities and towns. Cities will be selected based on the Smart Cities challenge, where cities will compete in a countrywide competition to obtain the benefits from this mission. As of January 2018, 99 cities have been selected to be upgraded as part of the Smart Cities Mission after they defeated other cities in the challenge. It is a five-year program in which, except for

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, all of the Indian states and Union territories are participating by nominating at least one city for the Smart Cities challenge. Financial aid will be given by the central and state governments between 2017–2022 to the cities, and the mission will start showing results from 2022 onwards. Each city will create a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), headed by a full-time CEO, to implement the Smart Cities Mission. Centre and state government will provide funding to the company, as equal contribution of each. The company has to raise additional funds from the financial markets.

History

"100 Smart Cities Mission" was launched by

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on 25 June 2015. A total of was approved by the Indian Cabinet for the development of 100 smart cities and the rejuvenation of 500 others. for the Smart Cities mission and a total funding of for the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) have been approved by the Cabinet. In the

2014 Union budget of India The 2014 Union Budget of India was presented by Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley on 10 July 2014,11 am. This was the first budget of Narendra Modi led NDA government. Salient features of the budget * provided for the development of Smart Cities ...

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allocated for the 150 smart cities. However, only of the allocated amount could be spent until February 2015. Hence, the 2015 Union budget of India allocated only for the project. The first batch of 20 cities was selected. Known as 20 Lighthouse Cities in the first round of the All India City Challenge competition, they will be provided with central assistance of each during this financial year followed by per year during the next three years. The Urban Development Ministry had earlier released each to mission cities for preparation of Smart City Plans.

Smart City Challenge

The Ministry of Urban Development ( MoUD) program used a competition-based method as a means for selecting cities for funding, based on an area-based development strategy. Cities competed at the state level with other cities within the state. Then the state-level winner competed at the national level Smart City Challenge. Cities obtaining the highest marks in a particular round were chosen to be part of the mission. The state governments were asked to nominate potential cities based on state-level competition, with overall cities across India limited to 100. In August 2015 the

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released the list of 98 nominees sent in by state governments. All the participating cities from

( New Town, Kolkata,

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Durgapur Durgapur () is a planned tier-II urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the fourth largest urban agglomeration after Kolkata, Asansol and Siliguri in West Be ...

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) have withdrawn from the Smart Cities Mission.

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and

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from

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have also been withdrawn from the Smart Cities Mission.

List of cities nominated by states for the smart city challenge

There are 98 nominated by states national level smart cities challenge, based on state level competition. 100 cities were supposed to be nominated but Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh did not use one slot each. * Jammu & Kashmir was allocated one city but it could not submit the proposal on-time for the first round of the challenge. * All cities from West Bengal have withdrawn from the Smart Cities Mission. * Mumbai and Navi Mumbai have withdrawn from the Smart Cities Mission. * Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu will have the most smart cities under Smart Cities Mission

1st Round winners – Selection of 20 Smart Cities

Minister of Urban Development) Shri

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announced the selected top 20 from among the 98 nominated cities on 28 January 2016.

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topped the list of the top 20, followed by

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and

Jaipur Jaipur (; Hindi: ''Jayapura''), formerly Jeypore, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. , the city had a population of 3.1 million, making it the tenth most populous city in the country. Jaipur is also known a ...

2nd Round winners – Selection of 13 Smart Cities

* New Town Kolkata has withdrawn from the Smart Cities Mission after the Bengal government decided to withdraw all cities from the competition. It has rejected ''1,000 crore'' to be given for development of the city as smart city.

3rd round winners – Selection of 27 Smart Cities

In this round state capital cities

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Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

Bengaluru Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

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were allowed to compete in the Smart Cities challenge above and beyond the quota allocated to the state. It has also allowed the governments of Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh to nominate two cities each — Jammu and Srinagar, and Rae Bareli and Meerut respectively — in contravention of the rules. Overall 110 cities will compete for the 100 slots. The following is the third smart city list:

4th round winners – Selection of 30 Smart Cities

The following are the cities included in the Smart Cities Mission in 4th round: PCMC, Pune replaced

as a nomination from

for the Smart Cities Mission.

5th round winners – Selection of 10 Smart Cities

There is now a total of 100 cities which have been added to the Smart Cities Mission. The following are the cities included in the 5th round:

References

External links

Official Website

News on Smart City Mission

Smart Cities Challenges

Ministry of Urban Development

What is Smart City - according to the Smart city mission

Smart Cities: Mission Statement & Guidelines
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