NEW DELHI, May 24: Centre government on Monday announced the names of 13 more cities that will be developed ‘Smart City Mission’ and interestingly only one out of Jammu and Srinagar will be selected.
The 13 cities that qualified for the smart city projects are Chandigarh, Raipur (Chhattisgarh), New Town Kolkata, Bhagalpur (Bihar), Panaji (Goa), Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Imphal (Manipur), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Agartala (Tripura) and Faridabad (Haryana).
Union Minister for Urban development, Venkiah Naidu told that total investment of Rs 30,229 crore have proposed for the 13 cities selected and the investment proposed for 33 cities under the smart city plans is now Rs 80, 789 crore, he added.
Venkiah Naidu said one out of Meerut and Rai Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh and one out of Jammu and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir would be selected under the Smart City mission.
J&K Government off late have been saying that they will stress on getting both the cities included but it seems to be a distant dream.
Sources told Cross Town News , now things will turn difficult for PDP-BJP government , the city that will be left behind might make things difficult for one of the ruling coalition partner
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