The government on Thursday released a list of 98 selected cities, across 35 states and Union Territories to be developed as 'Smart Cities' under the government's '100 Smart Cities Mission. The names of the two cities are still awaited has Jammu & Kashmir has sought more time to decided on the potential Smart City, while 12 cites have been shortlisted from Uttar Pradesh as against 13 cities allotted to the state.
The Smart City Vision was announced by the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the NDA government's first Union Budget July last year. In the 2014 election campaign, our now Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to build 100 Smart Cities by the year 2022 so as to offset the pressure on the Indian metros.
The Vision has been converted by the government into India Smart Cities Challenge - a competition designed to inspire greater creativity from municipal officials and their partners, more involvement and inspiration from citizens, and the development of proposals that will produce concrete benefits in people's lives.
These 100 shortlisted cities will compete against each other, while the ones judged with best proposals will receive funding. The remaining cities will have the chance to compete again next year.
Going ahead, the government is likely to select about 20 cities in the first round by the end of the calendar year. The competition cycle is said to run till FY18, and the government has sanctioned up to Rs 6,000 crore for the 100 Smart Cities Project. In the first year, the government will give up to Rs 200 crore, followed by Rs 100 crore every year for the next three years to each of the selected city, based on certain conditions.
Here is the list of Smart Cities released by the government :
Tirupati
Kakinada18,78,980
3,74,260
3,50,9863.Arunachal Pradesh1Pasighat24,6564.Assam1Guwahati9,62,3345.Bihar3Muzaffarpur
Bhagalpur
Biharsharif3,93,724
4,10,210
2,96,8896.Chandigarh1Chandigarh10,55,4507.Chhatisgarh2Raipur
Bilaspur10,47,389
3,65,5798.Daman & Diu1Diu23,9919.Dadra & Nagar Haveli1Silvassa98,03210.Delhi1New Delhi Municipal Council2,49,99811.Goa1Panaji1,00,00012.Gujarat6Gandhinagar
Ahmedabad
Surat
Vadodara
Rajkot
Dahod2,92,797
55,77,940
44,67,797
17,52,371
13,23,363
1,30,53013.Haryana2Karnal
Faridabad3,02,140
14,14,05014.Himachal Pradesh1Dharamshala22,58015.Jharkhand1Ranchi10,73,42716.Karnataka6Mangaluru
Belagavi
Shivamogga
Hubballi-Dharwad
Tumakuru
Davanegere4,84,785
4,88,292
3,22,428
9,43,857
3,05,821
4,35,12817.Kerala1Kochi6,01,57418.Lakshadweep1Kavaratti11,21019.Madhya Pradesh7Bhopal
Indore
Jabalpur
Gwalior
Sagar
Satna
Ujjain19,22,130
21,95,274
12,16,445
11,59,032
2,73,296
2,80,222
5,15,21520.Maharashtra10Navi Mumbai
Nashik
Thane
Greater Mumbai
Amravati
Solapur
Nagpur
Kalyan-Dombivali
Aurangabad
Pune11,19,000
14,86,000
18,41,000
1,24,00,000
7,45,000
9,52,000
24,60,000
15,18,000
11,65,000
31,24,00021.Manipur1Imphal2,68,24322.Meghalaya1Shillong3,54,32523.Mizoram1Aizawl2,91,00024.Nagaland1Kohima1,07,00025.Odisha2Bhubaneshwar
Raurkela8,40,834
3,10,97626.Puducherry1Oulgaret3,00,10427.Punjab3Ludhiana
Jalandhar
Amritsar16,18,879
8,68,181
11,55,66428.Rajasthan4Jaipur
Udaipur
Kota
Ajmer30,73,350
4,75,150
10,01,365
5,51,36029.Sikkim1Namchi12,19030.Tamil Nadu12Tiruchirapalli
Tirunelveli
Dindigul
Thanjavur
Tiruppur
Salem
Vellore
Coimbatore
Madurai
Erode
Thoothukudi
Chennai9,16,674
4,74,838
2,07,327
2,22,943
8,77,778
8,31,038
5,04,079
16,01,438
15,61,129
4,98,129
3,70,896
67,27,00031.Telangana2Greater Hyderabad
Greater Warangal67,31,790
8,19,40632.Tripura1Agartala4,00,00433.Uttar Pradesh**12Moradabad
Aligarh
Saharanpur
Bareilly
Jhansi
Kanpur
Allahabad
Lucknow
Varanasi
Ghaziabad
Agra
Rampur8,87,871
8,74,408
7,05,478
9,03,668
5,05,693
27,65,348
11,12,544
28,17,105
11,98,491
16,48,643
15,85,704
3,25,31334.Uttarakhand1Dehradun5,83,97135.West Bengal4New Town Kolkata
Bidhannagar
Durgapur
Haldia36,541
6,33,704
5,71,000
2,72,000
*Jammu & Kashmir has asked for more time to decide on the potential Smart City.
**12 Cities have been shortlisted from Uttar Pradesh against 13 cities allocated to that State
