Smart City

Almost all 100 cities under smart cities initiative doing fairly well: Govt

The government on Thursday said almost all 100 cities selected under the smart cities initiative are progressing "fairly well" with some facing a slowdown in work due to Covid and local factors. The Centre's assertion came in response to a question in Lok Sabha by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who asked about "discrepancies" in the implementation of the projects under the smart city programme. Tharoor cited a comparison between Varanasi with Atal Nagar in Chhattisgarh, saying while most projects are complete for the former, only a few had wrapped up for the latter. In response to the question during Question Hour, Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said, "When you read facts and figures, you have to be careful." Sometimes, very little work is left for a project under construction to be completed but till the completion certificate comes, it will be shown as work under progress, Puri pointed out. "Almost all 100 cities are doing fairly well. In some due to the

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Envisioning a truly smart city

The success of the smart city mission depends on urban local bodies, and it is imperative to carve out a bigger role for them in the national development strategies

How smart must smart city planners of Srinagar be?

A city with a rich heritage like Srinagar merits that its planners strike a delicate balance between its great past and its inherent fault lines

106 projects under 'Smart City' in Delhi, 86 completed: Economic survey

The survey report shared the status of its implementation in Delhi for which the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) was selected on January 28, 2016.

BS Number Wise: Smart City Mission is slow and slipping

Plan to develop 100 urban centres is unable to meet deadlines or fully use funds but keeps adding new projects to its list

Smart city player Quantela raises $40 mn growth capital from Digital Alpha

Bags the first outcome based project from Kerala government in India

Top headlines: Goldman ups India GDP forecast, vaccine may come via govt

From claims of India directly purchasing vaccine from Moderna and distributing it here to PM Modi seeking funding, Business Standard brings you the top headlines of the day

Indian cities drop in Global Smart City Index, 'not prepared' for pandemic

Four Indian cities -- New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru -- witnessed a significant drop in their rankings in the global listing of smart cities that was topped by Singapore

Aligarh Smart City project should be expedited: Adityanath tells officials

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Tuesday said the Aligarh Smart City project should be fast-tracked as the city has to play an important role in realisation of the dream of 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat'. He was reviewing development projects in Aligarh division -- comprising Aligarh, Kasganj, Etah and Hathras districts -- through video conferencing from his official residence in Lucknow. Twenty-five projects worth over Rs 50 crore are underway in the division, the UP government said in a statement issued here on Tuesday. Adityanath said that Aligarh, one of the six nodes of the ambitious Defence Corridor project, is a hub of hardware manufacturing, including the lock industry, and holds immense potential for industrialisation and job creation in the state. The Chief Minister asked for a departmental review of the construction of a 'No Frills Airport' at Aligarh, the statement said. The CM asked officials to prepare an action plan to take ODOP (one district one product) scheme

Realty firm M3M signs MoU with Swedish firm to develop smart city

The M3M group owns over 2,000 acres of prime land located right in the heart of Gurgaon and Delhi NCR

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs gets conditional nod to build Toronto smart city

The project will go through a formal evaluation and further public consultation before a final vote on March 31

Even as India prepares to add 100 smart cities, one tells a cautionary tale

Amaravati, India's first greenfield capital in decades, has been hailed as a model planned city

New Smart cities: From UP's Bareilly to TN's Erode, here's the full list

Under the scheme, each city will get Rs 500 crore from the Centre for implementing various projects

New 'Smart City' hatches solutions to urban chaos

Planners for new state capital envision drones, artificial intelligence to keep order and head off growth of slums

Smart City contracts to show results by June 2018, says minister

Only 6.3% of all projects sanctioned under the Smart Cities Mission were under implementation till July

Smart city initiatives to benefit 50% of citizens across the globe: Gartner

20% of all local govt organisations will generate revenue from value-added open data through marketplaces by 2020

By 2020 less than 10% of smart city projects will be large-scale: Gartner

A structured approach in selecting these projects has thus far been missing from most city councils, says Ganesh Ramamoorthy, research vice president at Gartner

Lodha Group sells flats worth Rs 690 cr in Palava township

The group has sold over 1,350 homes in India's first privately developed smart city in Maharasthra

An SPV to be set up for Thane Smart City project

An SPV will help in the planning, implementation, operation, monitoring and management of the project