Modi government’s ambitious ‘Smart Cities’ project has shortlisted 98 cities but Bengaluru and Patna don’t figure in the list.
New Delhi, Aug 28, 2015 – Out of 98 cities selected for the Rs 48,000 crore ‘Smart Cities’ project, 24 are capital cities, 24 are business and industrial centres, 18 are of cultural and
tourism importance, 5 are port cities, and 3 being education and health care hubs,
Nine capital cities that could not be nominated for SmartCity development are Patna, Itanagar, Shimla, Banglaore, Daman, Thiruvanathapuram, Puducherry, Gangtok and Kohima.
While UP has maximum of 13 cities, followed by 12 by Tamil Nadu and 10 by Maharashtra to be developed as Smart Cities, Madhya Pradesh has seven cities in the project.
Karnataka and Gujarat have six cities each while Bihar and Andhra has three each and rest of the states have two and one cities respectively in the project.
Check out the 98 cities that will see a major transformation!
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
Port Blair |
West Bengal
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New Town Kolkata Bidhannagar Durgapur Haldia |
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Andhra Pradesh
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Vishakhapatnam Tirupati Kakinada |
Lakshadweep
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Kavarrati |
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Arunachal Pradesh |
Pasighat |
Manipur |
Imphal |
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Assam |
Guwahati |
Meghalaya |
Shillong |
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Bihar
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Muzaffarpur Bhagalpur Biharsharif |
Punjab |
Ludhiana Jalandhar Amritsar |
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Chandigarh |
Raipur Bilaspur |
Nagaland
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Kohima |
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Chhattisgarh |
Puducherry
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Oulgaret |
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Dadra and Nagar Haveli |
Silvassa |
Rajasthan
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Jaipur Udaipur Kota Ajmer |
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Daman and Diu |
Diu |
Mizoram |
Aizawl |
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Delhi (NDMC) |
Panaji |
Sikkim |
Namchi |
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Goa |
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Gujarat |
Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Surat Vadodara Rajkot Dahod |
Madhya Pradesh
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Bhopal Indore Jabalpur Gwalior Sagar Satna Ujjain |
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Haryana |
Karnal Faridabad |
Odisha
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Bhubaneshwar Raurkela |
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Himachal Pradesh |
Dharamshala |
Tripura |
Agartala |
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Jharkhand |
Ranchi |
Uttarakhand |
Dehradun |
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Karnataka |
Mangaluru Belagavi Shivamogga Hubballi-Dharwad Tumakuru Davanegere |
Maharashtra |
Navi Mumbai Nashik Thane Greater Mumbai Amravati Solapur Nagpur Kalyan-Dombivali Aurangabad Pune |
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Kerala |
Kochi |
Telangana
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Greater Hyderabad Greater Warangal |
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Tamil Nadu |
Tiruchirapalli Chennai Tiruppur Coimbatore Vellore Salem Erode Thanjavur Tirunelveli Dindigul Madurai Thoothukudi |
Uttar Pradesh
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Moradabad Aligarh Saharanpur Bareilly Jhansi Kanpur Allahabad Lucknow Varanasi Ghaziabad Agra Rampur |
