List of Smart City in India Announced by Indian Government

PM Narendra Modi propelled the 'Smart Cities' project last year. The rundown of 20 smart cities out of the 98 shortlisted for the 'Smart Cities Mission' was released on Thursday. These 20 cities will be the first to get reserves, subsequently kickstarting the procedure of forming them into 'smart cities'. The following two years will see the incorporation of 40 and 38 cities, individually. A 'smart city' is a urban locale that is exceedingly best in class regarding general infrastructure, reasonable real estate, correspondences and market viability. It is a city where data innovation is the principal infrastructure and the basis for giving essential services to occupants.

Of the 98 cities and towns that five years down will graduate into smart cities, 24 are capital cities, another 24 are business and modern focuses, 18 are society and tourism impacted areas, five are port cities and three are instruction and human services hubs. These will be the initial 20 smart cities in India: 1. The cities picked are Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur, Surat, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Jabalpur, Visakhapatnam, Solapur, Davangere, Indore, the New Delhi area, Coimbatore, Kakinada, Belgaum, Udaipur, Guwahati, Chennai, Ludhiana and Bhopal. 2. Thirteen of them are in the WHO rundown of the 20 most polluted cities in the world. 3. The 20 names were picked from a rundown of 97 cities put together by states amid a competition last year. The decisions were judged on administration levels, infrastructure and track record. More than 2.5 million citizens said something regarding which urban problems should have been be fathomed first. 4. "The competition was as thorough as the civil services exam," remarked Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu. 5. None of the cities are from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. Then again, a few states have two or more nominees - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. 6. To qualify, states and neighborhood organizations needed to give "smart answers" to a format with 43 questions. 7. The cities not named today will be requested that start acting responsibly, focus on inadequacies and get ready for Round 2 of declarations in April. 8. In December last year, 97 chose cities had presented their arrangements to the service and were given Rs.2 crore each. 9. PM Modi has promised to make 100 new smart cities by 2022 that will have web connectivity, e-governance alongside quality infrastructure, for example, waste administration and efficient public transport. 10. The prime minister had portrayed Smart Cities as those with "high caliber of life comparable with any developed European city".