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New TN smart city list includes Trichy, Tirunelveli and Puducherry

  • Each city will get an amount of Rs 500 crore.
  • An amount of rupees 46,879 crore would be spent for the infrastructure.
  • An amount of rupees 10,514 crore would be spent for the technological advancements.
The new smart city list includes Trichy Tirunelveli and Puducherry

Central government has announced the names of 30 cities that have been chosen for the Smart City Mission. Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin and Tiruppur have been included in this list. Puducherry has also been enclosed in the list.

In 2015, under the Urban Development Commission, it was planned by the Central government to implement the smart city mission in 100 cities of India. 

Each city will get an amount of Rupees 500 crore. Following which, the development processes would be carried out.

After announcing the new list of 30 cities, The Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Venkaiah Naidu met the reporters and said, “So far, 60 cities have been included in Smart City Mission. 45 cities have applied for the same but out of which only 30 cities have been selected. An amount of Rupees 57,393 crore has been planned to be allotted. From which an amount of Rupees 46,879 crore would be spent for the infrastructure and Rupees 10,514 crore for the Technological advancements. It sums up to the total of Rupees 1,91,155 crore”

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Bilaspur and Raipur (Chhattisgarh ) , Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) , Rajkot, Gandhinagar and Dahod (Gujarat), Patna Bilaspur (Bihar), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Karimnagar Telangana, Sagar Satna (Madhya Pradesh), Karnal (Haryana), Pimpri Chinchwad (Maharashtra), Simla (Himachal Pradesh), Jammu and Srinagar (Jammu Kashmir),Fasikot (Arunachal Pradesh), Allahabad, jhansi Aligarh ()Uttar Pradesh, Jasal (Mizoram), Gangtok (Sikkim)

It should be noted that Tamil Nadu’s cities such as Chennai, Madurai, Tanjore, Vellore have already been included under the Smart City Mission

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