OREANDA-NEWS. December 18, 2015. 85 of the 98 cities included in the Smart City Mission have submitted city level Smart City Proposals to the Ministry of Urban Development within the stipulated time. While 17 proposals were submitted yesterday, 68 proposals were received in the Ministry today, the last day  for submission.

While Tamil Nadu Government, preoccupied with flood management in Chennai and other parts of the state could not submit the proposals, Telangana Government sought to replace Hyderabad in the Smart City Mission by another city, to be communicated later.

Continuous monitoring and handholding by the senior officials of the Ministry of Urban Development helped the states and urban local bodies meet the deadline for submission of smart city proposals. Shri Madhusudhan Prasad, Secretary (Urban Development) was in regular contact with Chief Secretaries of almost all the states monitoring progress and advising in preparation of proposals.

The Ministry organized three Smart City Consultation Workshops, one Smart City Ideas Camp, five rounds of Webinars (online consultations with Mission Director seeking clarifications) and one Proposal Enhancement Workshop to enable states and urban local bodies formulate proposals as per Mission Guidelines.

Ministry of Urban Development also provided 8 Region-wise panels of consultants so that states and urban local bodies could chose consultants for preparation of smart city proposals through tendering, thereby saving on time.

30 foreign companies from 20 leading countries have been associated with preparation of smart city proposals of 45 mission cities. These include : KPMG, KcKinsey, CISCO Systems, Price Waterhouse Coopers, DeloiteToucheTohmastsu, Jones Lang La Salle, Dorsh Holding GmbH, Knight Frank, Tractabel Engineering SA, Haskoning DHV Consulting Pvt Ltd., Grant Thornton, Happold Engineers, Ecorys Netherlands BV etc.

Cities with which foreign companies were associated in preparation of smart city proposals include: New Delhi Municipal Council, Agartala, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bhagalpur, Bhabaneshwar, Bhopal, Greater Mumbai, Ghaziabad,  Lucknow, Ludhiana, Pune, New Town Kolkata, Kota, Ranchi, Rourkela, Ujjain, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Tumakuru (Karnataka) etc.

Total population of 98 mission cities is 13 crore accounting for 35% of country’s urban population. 8 of these have population of below one lakh each, 3 towns have population between one and two lakhs, 30 cities between 2 to 5 lakhs, 22 between 5 and 10 lakhs, 25 in the range of 10 to 25 lakhs, 5 between 25 and 50 lakhs and 5 cities have population above 50 lakhs.

Capital cities not included in Smart City Mission are: Bengaluru, Gangtok, , Itanagar, Kolkata, Patna, Shimla and Trivendrum.

Smart City Proposals received are :

State/UT

S.NO

City

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

1

Port Blari

Andhra Pradesh

2

3

4

Visakhapatnam

Kakinada

Tirupati

Arunachal Pradesh

5

PasiGhat

Asam

6

Guwahaty

Bihar

7

8

9

Muzaffarpur

Bhagalpur

Biharshariff

Chandigarh

10

Chandigarh

Chattisgarh

11

12

Raipur

Bilaspur

Daman & Dir

13

Diu

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

14

Silvassa

Delhi

15

New Delhi Muncipal Council

Goa

16

Panaji

Gujarat

17

18

19

20

21

22

Ahmedabad

Gandhinagar

Dahod

Rajkot

Surat

Vadodara

Haryana

23

24

Faridabad

Kanal

Himachal Pradesh

25

Dharmashala

Jharkhand

26

Ranchi

Karnataka

27

28

29

30

31

32

Belgavi

Hubbali-Dharwad

Davangere

Mangaluru

Shivamogga

Tumkuru

Kerala

33

Kochi

Lakshadweep

34

Kavaratti

MP

35

36

37

38

39

40

41

Bhopal

Indore

Jabalpur

Gwalior

Sagar

Satna

Ujjain

Maharashtra

42

43

44

45

46

47

48

49

50

51

Navi Mumbai

Greater Mumbai

Nashik

Thane

Amravati

Solapur

Nagpur

KalyanDombivali

Aurangabad

Pune

Manipur

52

Imphal

Meghalaya

53

Shilllong

Mizoram

54

Aizawl

Nagaland

55

Kohima

Odisha

56

57

Bhubaneshwar

Rourkela

Puducherry

58

Oulgaret

Punjab

59

60

61

Amritsar

Ludhiana

Jullandhar

Rajasthan

62

63

64

65

Jaipur

Ajmer

Kota

Udaipur

Sikkim,

66

Namchi

Telangana

67

Greater Warangal

Tripura

68

Agartala

UP

69

60

71

72

73

74

75

76

77

78

79

80

Moradabad

Aligarh

Sharanpur

Bareily

Jhansi

Kanpur

Allahabad

Lucknow

Varanasi

Ghaziabad

Agra

Rampur

Uttarakhand

81

Dehradun

West Bengal

82

83

84

85

New Town Kolkata

Bidhannagar

Durgapur

Haldia