The government on Tuesday announced a new list of smart cities, taking the total number of cities to get the makeover under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Smart City Mission to 60.
The third list of smart cities was announced by Union Minister for Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu
Union Minister for Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu while making the announcement of the smart-cities said that 63 cities participated in the competition that was held to identify the 27 smart-cities.
Some of the cities included in the new list of smart-cities are- Agra, Ajmer, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Gwalior, Kanpur, Kota, Nashik, Salem, Varanasi and Vellore.
Here’s the complete list:
Smart Cities (Courtesy: Twitter/PIB India)
The Urban Development minister also congratulated all the cities in a series of tweets and wish them all the best.
Congratulations to Madhya Pradesh, 2 cities Gwalior and Ujjain are selected as a smart cities in the 3rd round of competition.. All the best
— M Venkaiah Naidu (@MVenkaiahNaidu) September 20, 2016
Congratulations to #Nagaland, Kohima is selected as a smart city in the 3rd round of competition… All the best…
— M Venkaiah Naidu (@MVenkaiahNaidu) September 20, 2016
Congratulations to #Rajasthan, 2 cities Ajmer and Kota are selected as smart cities in the 3rd round of competition… All the best…
— M Venkaiah Naidu (@MVenkaiahNaidu) September 20, 2016
Congratulations to #UttarPradesh, 3 cities Kanpur, Varanasi, Agra r selected as smart cities in the 3rd round of competition… All the best
— M Venkaiah Naidu (@MVenkaiahNaidu) September 20, 2016
