Smart Cities Project

The government of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a vision of developing 100 smart cities as satellite towns of larger cities and by modernizing the existing mid-sized cities.

The government plans to identify 20 smart cities in 2015, 40 in 2016 and another 40 in 2017.

Theobjective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions. The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a replicable model which will act like a light house to other aspiring cities.

India's urban population is projected to grow from 340 million in 2008 to 590 million in 2030, according to a 2010 McKinsey and Company study. The country will have to build the equivalent of one Mumbai of commercial and residential space every year to keep up, McKinsey estimated.

Smart Targets

Funding

The $100 billion Delhi-Mumbai corridor effort has a 26 percent investment from Japan. When Singapore Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam visited India earlier this month, he offered to build one smart city. And during his own visit last week, British Chancellor George Osborne extended a 1 billion pound credit line to help U.K. companies invest in Indian infrastructure. France has committed to invest over 2 billion euros for Smart City projects in India with special focus on Chandigarh, Nagpur and Puducherry, French ambassador in India, Francois Richier, said. UK Govt is also interested in the project and they have conducted detailed study on India's ambitious project and how UK will participate in that.

Richier said there is also an investment of 200 million euros for the extension of Bangalore Metro.

CRISIL, KPMG, McKinsey and Mott MacDonald are among the 37 consulting firms which have been assigned for preparing action plans for the 88 cities proposed to be developed as Smart Cities. 

A model smart city

Full list of Smart Cities

Sl.No.	Name of State/UT	No. of citiesshortlisted	Names of selected cities	Population of Cities
1.	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	1	Port Blair	1,40,572
2.	Andhra Pradesh	3	1. Vishakhapatnam/ 2. Tirupati/ 3. Kakinada	1.18,78,980/ 2. 3,74,260/ 3. 3,50,968/
3.	Arunachal Pradesh	1	Pasighat	26,656
4.	Assam	1	Guwahati	9,62,334
5.	Bihar	3	1. Muzaffarpur/ 2. Bhagalpur/ 3. Biharsharif	1. 3,93,724/ 2. 4,10,210/ 3. 2,96,889
6.	Chandigarh	1	Chandigarh	10,55,450
7.	Chhattisgarh	2	1. Raipur/ 2. Bilaspur	1. 10,47,389/ 2. 3,65,579
8.	Daman and Diu	1	Diu	23,991
9.	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	1	Silvassa	98,032
10.	Delhi	1	New Delhi Muncipal Council	2,49,998
11.	Goa	1	Panaji	1,00,000
12.	Gujarat	6	1. Gandhinagar/ 2. Ahmedabad/ 3. Surat/ 4. Vadodara/ 5. Rajkot/ 6. Dahod	1. 2,92,797/ 2. 55,77,940/ 3. 44,67,797/ 4. 17,52,371/ 5. 13,23,363/ 6. 1,30,530
13.	Haryana	2	1. Karnal/ 2. Faridabad	1. 3,02,140/ 2. 14,14,050
14.	Himachal Pradesh	1	Dharamshala	22,580
15.	Jharkhand	1	Ranchi	10,73,427
16.	Karnataka	6	1. Mangaluru/ 2. Belagavi/ 3. Shivamogga/ 4. Hubbali - Dharwad/ 5. Tumakuru/ 6. Davanagere	1. 4,84,785/ 2. 4,88,292/ 3. 3,22,428/ 4. 9,43,857/ 5. 3,05,821/ 6. 4,35,128
17.	Kerala	1	Kochi	6,01,574
18.	Lakshwadweep	1	Kavaratti	11,210
19.	Madhya Pradesh	7	1. Bhopal/ 2. Indore/ 3. Jabalpul/ 4. Gwalior/ 5. Sagar/ 6. Satna/ 7. Ujjain	1. 19,22,130/ 2. 21,95,274/ 3. 12,16,445/ 4. 11,59,032/ 5. 2,73,296/ 6. 2,80,222/ 7. 5,15,215
20.	Maharashtra	10.	1. Navi Mumbai/ 2. Nashik/ 3. Thane/ 4. Greater Mumbai/ 5. Amravati/ 6. Solapur/ 7. Nagpur/ 8. Kalyan-Dombivilli/ 9. Aurangabad/ 10. Pune	1. 11, 19, 000/ 2. 14,86,000/ 3. 18,41,000/ 4. 1,24,00,000/ 5. 7,45,000/ 6. 9,52,000/ 7. 24,60,000/ 8. 15,18,000/ 9. 11,65,000/ 10. 31,24,000/
21.	Manipur	1	Imphal	2,68,243
22.	Meghalaya	1	Shillong	3,54,325
23.	Mizoram	1	Aizwal	2,91,000
24.	Nagaland	1	Kohima	1,07,000
25.	Odisha	2	1. Bhubaneshwar/ 2. Raurkela	1. 8,40,834/
26.	Puducherry	1	Oulgaret	3.00,104
27.	Punjab	3	1. Ludhiana/ 2. Jalandhar/ 3. Amritsar	1. 16,18,874/ 2. 8,68,181/ 3. 11,55,664
28.	Rajasthan	4	1. Jaipur/ 2. Udaipur/ 3. Kota/ 4. Ajmer	1. 30,73,350/ 2. 4,75,150 3. 10,01,365/ 4. 5,51,360
29.	Sikkim	1	Namchi	12,190
30.	Tamil Nadu	12	1. Tiruchurapalli/ 2. Tirunelveli/ 3. Dindigul/ 4. Thanjavur/ 5. Tiruppur/ 6. Salem/ 7. Vellore/ 8. Coimbatore/ 9. Madurai/ 10. Erode/ 11. Thoothukudi/ 12. Chennai	1. 9,19,974/ 2. 4,74,838/ 3. 2,07,327/ 4. 2,22,943/ 5. 8,77,778/ 6. 8,31,038/ 7. 5,04,079/ 8. 16,01,438/ 9. 15,61,129/ 10. 4,98,129/ 11. 3,70,896/ 12. 67,27,000
31.	Telangana	2	1. Greater Hyderabad 2. Greater Warangal	1. 67,31,790/ 2. 8,19,406
32.	Tripura	1	Agartala	4,00,004
33.	Uttar Pradesh**	12	1. Moradabad/ 2. Aligarh/ 3. Shaharanpur/ 4. Bareilly/ 5. Jhansi/ 6. Kanpur/ 7. Allahabad/ 8. Lucknow/ 9. Varanasi/ 10. Ghaziabad/ 11. Agra/ 12. Rampur	1. 8,87,871/ 2. 8,74,408/ 3. 7,05,478/ 4. 9,03,668/ 5. 5,05,693/ 6. 27,65,348/ 7. 11,12,544/ 8. 28,17,105/ 9. 11,98,491/ 10. 16,48,643/ 11. 15,85,704/ 12. 3,35,313
34.	Uttarakhand	1	Dehradun	5,83,971
35.	West Bengal	4	1. New Town Kolkata/ 2. Bidhannagar/ 3. Duragapur/ 4. Haldia	1. 36,541/ 2. 6,33,704/ 3. 5,71,000/ 4. 2,72,000

Ref:

1. http://smartcities.gov.in/writereaddata/SmartCityGuidelines.pdf
2. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/460151/UKTI_-_The_UK_offer_to_build_together__1_.pdf
3. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-releases-list-of-98-cities-for-smart-city-project/article7586751.ece
4. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/infrastructure/37-consulting-firms-to-prepare-smart-city-plans-for-88-cities/articleshow/49242050.cms

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