Smart Cities for Urban Transformation

Objectives

Leverage the ‘Smart Cities’ concept in select urban clusters to:

  • Drive job creation and economic growth.
  • Significantly improve efficiencies in service delivery.
  • Leverage technology for inclusive, sustainable and participatory development by 2022-23.

Current Situation

The Government of India has so far selected 99 cities with an outlay of INR 2.04 lakh crore. These cities have started implementing projects such as smart command and control centres, smart area-based development, smart roads, solar rooftops, intelligent transport systems and smart parks. These projects have the unique feature of integration between different infrastructural elements of the projects. As of 14 May 2018, projects worth INR 4,800 crores have been ....

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