Centre releases list of 98 cities for Smart City project

TN gets 12 cities; Jammu and Kashmir and UP still have to nominate one city each; Mumbai, Bengaluru and Patna don’t figure in the list.

Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu Thursday unveiled the list of 98 urban centres that will be transformed into 'smart cities' over the next five years.

In an intra-state competition, Uttar Pradesh topped the list with its 13 urban areas meeting the smart-cities criteria, followed by Tamil Nadu, which got an approval for developing 12 towns into smart cities.

“In the next couple of days,” said Mr. Naidu while addressing a press conference, “we will release Rs. 2 Crores for each of the 98 cities for preparation of smart city plans.”

The Ministry, Mr. Naidu said, has set up region-wise panels of “reputed agencies for assisting smart city aspirants” to draft the plans of developing the qualified urban centres.

Out of 98 cities and towns that five years down will graduate into smart cities, 24 are capital cities, another 24 are business and industrial centres, 18 are culture and tourism influenced areas, five are port cities and three are education and health care hubs.

About nine major cities such as Bengaluru, Kolkata, Shimla, Puducherry, Daman, Patna, Itanagar, Thiruvananthapuram and Gangtok did not qualify the smart city criteria. “This non-inclusion goes to prove that the selection in the first stage of competition was not swayed by the status or importance of the cities and the selection was objective and as per the stipulated criteria,” Mr. Naidu said.

Mr. Naidu said that the Urban Development Ministry will provide Rs. 100 Crores to each city over the next five years.

The success of the government’s Smart City Mission is largely dependent upon the finance generation at the State level as well as private investments. The central government has set aside Rs. 48,000 crores for the mission and the money will be released to urban local bodies in frequent intervals in the next five years. The central government has asked the State governments to generate the rest of the Rs. 48,000 crores as the grand total of the mission is estimated at Rs. 96,000 crores.

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	Shillion	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

*Jammu and 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 the State.

Keywords: Smart cities, Smart City Project, 100 Smart Cities