Union Urban Development minister
M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday announced the list of 98 cities nominated
for the Smart City Mission, saying a population of 13 crore across
these cities will be covered under the initiative.
"There are 13
cities from Uttar Pradesh, 12 from Tamil Nadu, 10 from Maharashtra,
seven from Madhya Pradesh, three each from Bihar and Andhra Pradesh
included in the list," Naidu told media persons at an interaction here.
"Smart cities need smart people. We need people's co-operation to move forward in our mission," he added.
The
central government proposes to give financial support to the extent of
Rs.48,000 crore to these cities over the next five years, Naidu said.
"Around
13 crore population across 98 cities will be covered under the Smart
City Mission. Making them smart will make them engines of economic
growth besides giving decent life to the citizens," he said.
Nine capital cities that were not nominated for the mission include Itanagar, Patna, Shimla, Bengaluru and Kolkata.
The
minister said the prime motive of the initiative was to enhance urban
life. "The mission is very practical and realistic," he added.
List of 98 cities and towns selected under the Smart Cities mission (population in brackets):
Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Port Blair (140,572)
Andhra Pradesh: Vishakhapatnam (18,78,980), Tirupati (374,260), Kakinada (350,986)
Arunachal Pradesh: Pasighat (24,656)
Assam: Guwahati (962,334)
Bihar: Muzaffarpur (393,724), Bhagalpur (410,210), Biharsharif (296,889)
Chandigarh: Chandigarh (10,55,450)
Chhatisgarh: Raipur (10,47,389), Bilaspur (365,579)
Daman & Diu: Diu (23,991)
Dadra & Nagar Haveli: Silvassa (98,032)
Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council area (249,998)
Goa: Panaji (100,000)
Gujarat:
Gandhinagar (292,797), Ahmedabad (55,77,940), Surat (44,67,797),
Vadodara (17,52,371), Rajkot (13,23,363), Dahod (130,530)
Haryana: Karnal (302,140), Faridabad (14,14,050)
Himachal Pradesh: Dharamshala (22,580)
Jharkhand: Ranchi (10,73,427)
Karnataka:
Mangaluru (484,785), Belagavi (488,292), Shivamogga (322,428),
Hubballi-Dharwad (943,857), Tumakuru (305,821), Davanegere (435,128)
Kerala: Kochi (601,574)
Lakshadweep: Kavaratti: (11,210)
Madhya
Pradesh: Bhopal (19,22,130), Indore (21,95,274), Jabalpur (12,16,445),
Gwalior (11,59,032), Sagar (273,296), Satna (280,222), Ujjain (515,215)
Maharashtra:
Navi Mumbai (11,19,000), Nashik (14,86,000), Thane (18,41,000), Greater
Mumbai (1,24,00,000), Amravati (745,000), Solapur (952,000), Nagpur
(24,60,000), Kalyan-Dombivali (15,18,000), Aurangabad (11,65,000), Pune
(31,24,000)
Manipur: Imphal (268,243)
Meghalaya: Shillong (354,325)
Mizoram: Aizawl (291,000)
Nagaland: Kohima (107,000)
Odisha: Bhubaneshwar (840,834), Raurkela (310,976),
Puducherry: Oulgaret (300,104)
Punjab: Ludhiana (16,18,879), Jalandhar (868,181), Amritsar (11,55,664)
Rajasthan: Jaipur (30,73,350), Udaipur (475,150), Kota (10,01,365), Ajmer (551,360)
Sikkim: Namchi (12,190)
Tamil
Nadu: Tiruchirapalli (916,674), Tirunelveli (474,838), Dindigul
(207,327), Thanjavur (222,943), Tiruppur (877,778), Salem (831,038),
Vellore (504,079), Coimbatore (16,01,438), Madurai (15,61,129), Erode
(498,129), Thoothukudi (370,896), Chennai (67,27,000)
Telangana: Greater Hyderabad (67,31,790), Greater Warangal (819,406)
Tripura: Agartala (400,004)
Uttar
Pradesh**: Moradabad (887,871), Aligarh (874,408), Saharanpur
(705,478), Bareilly (903,668), Jhansi (505,693), Kanpur (27,65,348),
Allahabad (11,12,544), Lucknow (28,17,105), Varanasi (11,98,491),
Ghaziabad (16,48,643), Agra (15,85,704), Rampur (325,313)
Uttarakhand: Dehradun (583,971)
West Bengal: New Town Kolkata (36,541), Bidhannagar (633,704), Durgapur (571,000), Haldia (272,000)
*Jammu & Kashmir has asked for more time to decide on the potential Smart City.
**Twelve cities have been shortlisted from Uttar Pradesh against 13 cities allocated to the state.
