Smart Cities

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Smart Cities
• The Government of India has launched the Smart Cities Mission on 25 June 2015.

• The objective is to promote sustainable and inclusive cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions.

• The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a replicable model which will act like a lighthouse to other aspiring cities. The Smart Cities Mission is meant to set examples that can be replicated both within and outside the Smart City, catalysing the creation of similar Smart Cities in various regions and parts of the country.

• Some of the core infrastructure elements in a Smart City would include adequate water supply, assured electricity supply, sanitation, including solid waste management, efficient urban mobility and public transport, affordable housing, especially for the poor, robust IT connectivity and digitalization, good governance, especially e-Governance and citizen participation, sustainable environment, safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children and the elderly and health and education.

• The strategic components of the Smart Cities Mission are city improvement (retrofitting), city renewal (redevelopment) and city extension (Greenfield development) plus a Pan-city initiative in which Smart Solutions are applied covering larger parts of the city.

• Area-based development will transform existing areas (retrofit and redevelop), including slums, into better planned human settlements, thereby, improving liveability of the whole cities. Development of well-planned and fully serviced new areas (greenfield) will be encouraged around cities in order to accommodate the rapidly expanding population in urban areas. Application of Smart Solutions will enable cities to use technology to improve infrastructure and services.

• Comprehensive development in this way will improve quality of life, create employment and enhance incomes for all, especially the poor and the disadvantaged, leading to inclusive cities.

Selection Process

• The selection process of Smart Cities is based on the idea of Competitive and Co-operative Federalism and follows a Challenge process to select cities in two stages.

• In January 2016, based on the All India Competition, 20 smart cities were selected in Round 1 (Annexure-I). 13 more Smart Cities were selected in May 2016 in fast track round (Annexure-II).

• In Round 2, 63 potential smart cities participated of which, 27  Smart Cities have been selected in September 2016 (Annexure-III).

• In Round 3, 45 potential smart cities participated of which, 30  Smart Cities have been selected in June 2017 (Annexure-IV).

• A total investment of Rs.1,89,155 crore has been proposed by the 90 cities under their smart city plans. Projects focusing on revamping an identified area (Area Based Projects) are estimated to cost Rs. 1,52,499 crore. Smart initiatives across the city (Pan City Initiatives) account for the remaining Rs. 36,656 crore of investments.

• The implementation of the Smart Cities Mission is done by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to be set up at city level in the form of a limited company under the Companies Act, 2013 and will be promoted by the State/UT and the Urban Local Body (ULB) jointly both having 50:50 equity shareholding. After selection, each selected Smart Cities have to set up SPVs and start implementation of their Smart City Proposal, preparation of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs), tenders etc.

• The SPV will convert the Smart City Proposal into projects through Project Management Consultants (PMCs) and implementation thereafter.

Annexure - I
20 Winning Cities in Round 1

Rank No.Name of State/UTName of City
1.OdishaBhubaneswar
2.MaharashtraPune
3.RajasthanJaipur
4.GujaratSurat
5.KeralaKochi
6.GujaratAhmedabad
7.Madhya PradeshJabalpur
8.Andhra PradeshVisakhapatnam
9.MaharashtraSolapur
10.KarnatakaDavanagere
11.Madhya PradeshIndore
12.DelhiNDMC
13.Tamil NaduCoimbatore
14.Andhra PradeshKakinada
15.KarnatakaBelagavi
16.RajasthanUdaipur
17.AssamGuwahati
18.Tamil NaduChennai
19.PunjabLudhiana
20.Madhya PradeshBhopal
Annexure-II

13 Fast Track Winning Cities

Rank No.Name of State/UTName of City
1.Uttar PradeshLucknow
2.TelanganaWarangal
3.Himachal PradeshDharamshala
4.ChandigarhChandigarh
5.ChhattisgarhRaipur
6.West BengalNewtown Kolkata
7.BiharBhagalpur
8.GoaPanaji
9.A & N IslandsPort Blair
10.ManipurImphal
11.JharkhandRanchi
12.TripuraAgartala
13.HaryanaFaridabad

Annexure-III

Winning Cities in Round 2
S.noName of State/UTName of City
1PunjabAmritsar
2MaharashtraKalyan-Dombivali
3Madhya PradeshUjjain
4Andhra PradeshTirupati
5MaharashtraNagpur
6KarnatakaMangaluru
7Tamil NaduVellore
8MaharashtraThane
9Madhya PradeshGwalior
10Uttar PradeshAgra
11MaharashtraNashik
12OdishaRourkela
13Uttar PradeshKanpur
14Tamil NaduMadurai
15KarnatakaTumakuru
16RajasthanKota
17Tamil NaduThanjavur
18SikkimNamchi
19PunjabJalandhar
20KarnatakaShivamogga
21Tamil NaduSalem
22RajasthanAjmer
23Uttar PradeshVaranasi
24NagalandKohima
25KarnatakaHubballi-Dharwad
26MaharashtraAurangabad
27GujaratVadodara

Annexure-IV
Winning Cities in Round 3

S.No.Name of State/UTName of City
1KeralaThiruvananthapuram
2ChhattisgarhNaya Raipur
3GujaratRajkot
4Andhra PradeshAmaravati
5BiharPatna
6TelanganaKarimnagar
7BiharMuzaffarpur
8PuducherryPuducherry
9GujaratGandhinagar
10Jammu & KashmirSrinagar
11Madhya PradeshSagar
12HaryanaKarnal
13Madhya PradeshSatna
14KarnatakaBengaluru
15Himachal PradeshShimla
16UttarakhandDehradun
17Tamil NaduTiruppur
18MaharashtraPimpri Chinchwad
19ChhattisgarhBilaspur
20Arunachal PradeshPasighat
21Jammu & KashmirJammu
22GujaratDahod
23Tamil NaduTirunelveli
24Tamil NaduThoothukudi
25Tamil NaduTiruchirapalli
26Uttar PradeshJhansi
27MizoramAizawl
28Uttar PradeshAllahabad
29Uttar PradeshAligarh
30SikkimGangtok
Source : http://moud.gov.in/cms/smart-cities.php
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