New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had today launched three ambitious schemes to transform the urban India and aimed at developing cities and towns as new engines of growth.
The major three schemes are – Smart Cities Mission, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and the Housing for All, now named as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), are worth Rs four lakh crore.
Notify that AMRUT had seeks to ensure basic infrastructure and sanitation while PMAY enables the urban poor to own decent and affordable houses.
Prime Minister had launched these three schemes. PM had said that under Smart Cities Mission, quality of life will be enhanced in 100 identified cities and towns by ensuring quality infrastructure, improving services through application of smart solutions and enabling a clean and sustainable environment.
Modi said that these 500 cities will become engines of growth and they in turn should develop into smart cities.
PM also unveiled the criteria and guidelines for the smart cities and other schemes besides releasing operational guidelines for the three urban missions, unveiling logos and tag lines.
UP leads the pack as it has been given the opportunity to nominate 13 cities to be developed as smart cities, while 54 cities in the state have been identified under AMRUT scheme.
Tamil Nadu comes second with the allocation of 12 smart cities and 33 AMRUT cities.
While Maharashtra has been alloted 10 cities to nominate under the smart city project, Gujarat and Karnataka are eligible to develop six cities each.
Under AMRUT scheme, 37, 31 and 21 cities have been identified in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka respectively.
Delhi has got one city each for Smart City and AMRUT.
Bureau Report
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