Smart Cities

News: Union Minister of Urban Development, Venkaiah Naidu declared nominations of 98 cities for NDA government’s flagship program. Centre has earmarked Rs 48,000 crore for development of 100 smart cities. The cities were selected through intra-city competition evaluated on parameters such as service levels, financial and institutional capacity, past track ...

News: Pasighat is the only city in Arunachal Pradesh which fulfills the condition of having an existing master plan or a proposed one for being selected as a smart city under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, launched by Union government. Basic objective of this mission ...

News: The first stage of the city challenge competition for inclusion of cities and towns in the government’s Smart cities mission got underway. States have to nominate the assigned number of cities and towns from each state based on four broad criteria and a total of 13 sub-criteria. The four broad ...

With a lot of firms, Indian and Foreign, getting ready to invest in the Smart City Project, a few have already made strategical moves. Current Developments: Tasweek Real Estate Development, based in Abu Dhabi, recently partnered with MAMS Holdings Group in India. This move helped them access expertise on the ...

News 3 cities from India were among the winners of this challenge. Allahabad UP, Vishakhapatnam AP, Surat Gujarat More Details What is the Challenge? The Smarter Cities Challenge deploys top IBM experts to help cities around the world address their most critical challenges. They do this by putting teams on ...

News The government’s initiative for creating 100 smart cities achieved a major milestone as the various stakeholders came out with the criteria for the selection and ranking of cities and also broadly agreed on innovative financing models and urban governance reforms to be implemented as part of the project. Among ...