Smart Cities

Mission

National Smart Cities Mission is an urban

renewal and retrofitting program by the
Government of India with the mission to
develop smart cities across the country,
making them citizen friendly and
sustainable.[3] The Union Ministry of
Urban Development is responsible for
implementing the mission in
collaboration with the state governments
of the respective cities. The mission was
planned to include 100 cities, with the
deadline for completion of the projects
set between 2019 and 2023. As of
September 2023, 6188 out of total 7960
tendered projects have been completed,
utilizing ₹113,721 crores out of total
tendered amount of ₹171,432 crore.[4]
 Smart Cities Mission

Country India

Prime Minister(s) Narendra Modi

Ministry Ministry of Urban

Development

Key people Hardeep Singh Puri,

Minister of Housing
and Urban Affairs
Kunal Kumar
(Mission Director)[1]

Launched 2015

Funding ₹203,979 crore

(US$26 billion)[2]
Website smartcities.gov.in (ht
tps://smartcities.gov.
in)

Description
Smart Cities Mission envisions
developing areas within selected cities in
the country as model areas based on an
area development plan, which is
expected to have a rub-off effect on
other parts of the city and nearby cities
and towns.[5] Cities will be selected
based on the Smart Cities challenge,
where cities will compete in a
countrywide competition to obtain the
benefits from this mission. It is a five-
year program in which financial aid will be
given by the central government to the
cities.[6] The Ministry of Urban
Development used a competition-based
method as a means for selecting cities
for funding.[7] The state governments
were asked to nominate potential cities
with the overall count across India limited
to 100.[8] A hundred cities have been
selected so far to be upgraded as part of
the Smart Cities Mission.[9][10] Each city
will create a Special Purpose Vehicle
(SPV) headed by a CEO to implement the
projects under mission.[11]
History

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at

the launch of Smart Cities Mission
in 2015

The mission was launched by Prime

Minister Narendra Modi on 25 June
2015.[12] In the 2015 Union budget of
India,₹2,020 crore (US$250 million) was
allocated for the smart cities mission.[13]
The mission was further allocated
₹3,215 crore (US$400 million) in the 2016,
₹4,000 crore (US$500 million) in 2017,
₹6,169 crore (US$770 million) in 2018,
₹6,450 crore (US$810 million) in 2019,
₹6,136 crore (US$770 million) in 2020
and ₹6,118 crore (US$770 million) in the
2021.[14] The project was extended and
was allocated ₹14,100 crore
(US$1.8 billion) in the 2023 Union budget
of India and a further ₹16,000 crore
(US$2.0 billion) in the 2023 Union budget
of India.[15] As of September 2023, a total
of 7960 projects worth ₹171,432 crore
(US$21 billion) crore have been
tendered.[4]

List of Cities
In 2015, there were 98 cities nominated
by the states for the smart cities
challenge, based on state level
competition.[16] A hundred cities were
supposed to be nominated but Jammu
and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh did not
use one slot each.[17] All the participating
cities from West Bengal,[18] Mumbai and
Navi Mumbai from Maharashtra withdrew
the nominations.[19]
List of nominated cities (2016)

State/UT Count Cities

Agra, Aligarh, Bareilly,

Gorakhpur, Jhansi,
Kanpur, Lucknow,
Uttar Pradesh 13 Meerut, Moradabad,
Prayagraj, Rampur,
Raebareli, Saharanpur,
Varanasi

Chennai, Coimbatore,
Dindigul, Erode,
Madurai, Salem,
Tamil Nadu 12 Thanjavur, Thoothukudi,
Tiruchirappalli,
Tirunelveli, Tiruppur,
Vellore

Maharashtra 8 Amravati, Aurangabad,

Kalyan-Dombivali,
 State/UT Count Cities

Nagpur, Nashik, Pune,

Solapur, Thane,

Belagavi, Bengaluru,
Davanagere, Hubbali-
Karnataka 7
Dharwad, Mangaluru,
Shimoga, Tumakuru,

Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore,

Madhya
7 Jabalpur, Sagar, Satna,
Pradesh
Ujjain,

Ahmedabad, Dahod,
Gujarat 6 Gandhinagar, Rajkot,
Surat, Vadodara

Amaravati, Kakinada,
Andhra
4 Tirupati,
Pradesh
Visakhapatnam

Bhagalpur, Biharsharif,
Bihar 4
Muzaffarpur, Patna
 State/UT Count Cities

Ajmer, Jaipur, Kota,

Rajasthan 4
Udaipur

Bilaspur, Naya Raipur,

Chhattisgarh 3
Raipur

Amritsar, Jalandhar,
Punjab 3
Ludhiana

Kochi,
Kerala 2
Thiruvananthapuram

Haryana 2 Faridabad, Karnal

Bhubaneshwar,
Odisha 2
Rourkela

Sikkim 2 Gangtok, Namchi

Telangana 2 Karimnagar, Warangal

Arunachal
1 Pasighat
Pradesh

Assam 1 Guwahati
 State/UT Count Cities

Goa 1 Panaji

Himachal
1 Dharamshala
Pradesh

Jharkhand 1 Ranchi

Manipur 1 Imphal

Meghalaya 1 Shillong

Mizoram 1 Aizawl

Nagaland 1 Kohima

Tripura 1 Agartala

Uttarakhand 1 Dehradun

Andaman and
Nicobar 1 Port Blair
Islands

Chandigarh 1 Chandigarh
 State/UT Count Cities

Dadra and
1 Silvassa
Nagar Haveli

Daman and
1 Diu
Diu

Delhi 1 New Delhi

Jammu and
1 Srinagar
Kashmir

Lakshadweep 1 Kavaratti

Puducherry 1 Oulgaret

Selected cities

On 28 January 2016, a batch of 20 cities

known as "Lighthouse cities" were
selected in the first round of the All India
City Challenge competition for which an
assistance of ₹200 crore (US$25 million)
each during the first year followed by
₹100 crore (US$13 million) per year
during the next three years was
announced.[20] 13 cities were added as
an extension in May 2016.[21] 27 cities
were added in September 2016, 30 in
June 2017, nine in January 2018 and one
city in June 2018.[22][23][24][10]
 Srinagar
haramasala Jammu
Amritsar
Ludhiana Jalandhar
Shimla
Karnal Dehradun
Saharanpur
NewChandigarh Moradabad
Delhi Aligarh
Bareilly Pasighat
Itanagar
Faridabad
Jaipur
Lucknow Agra Namchi Gangtok
Ajmer KanpurMuzaffarpur
Prayagraj Kohima Guwahati
Imphal
Jhansi
Kota Bhagalpur
Gwalior
Udaipur
Gandhinagar Satna
Bhopal Patna
Varanasi Shillong
Agartala
VadodaraUjjain
edabad Bihar
Ranchi
JabalpurSharif
ajkotDiu Sagar
Rourkela
Bilaspur Aizawl
Dahod
Indore
Surat
NagpurRaipur Naya NewRaipur
Town,
Silvassa
NashikKalyan Bhubaneswar
Aurangabad Kolkata
Thane
Pimpri Pune Kakinada
Karimnagar
Solapur Warangal
Visakhapatnam
inchwad Amaravati
Belagavi
Panaji Hubli
Shimoga
Davangere
Tumakuru
Bengaluru
Mangaluru Tirupati
Chennai
Salem
Tiruppur Puducherry
Coimbatore Vellore
Erode
Tiruchirappalli Port Blair
Thanjavur
Kochi Madurai
Tirunelveli
Kavaratti
anthapuram Thoothukudi

S mart Cities [25]

List of selected cities

Phase Year Count Cities

Bhubaneswar, Pune
Jaipur, Surat, Kochi,
Ahmedabad,
Jabalpur,
Visakhapatnam,
January Solapur, Davangere,
Phase I 20
2016 Indore, New Delhi,
Coimbatore,
Kakinada, Belagavi,
Udaipur, Guwahati,
Chennai, Ludhiana,
Bhopal

Phase I May 2016 13 Chandigarh,

(Ext.) Bhagalpur,
Faridabad, Lucknow
|Raipur, Ranchi,
Dharamasala,
Phase Year Count Cities

Warangal, Panaji,
Agartala, Imphal,
Port Blair, Kolkata

Amritsar, Kalyan,
Ujjain, Tirupati,
Nagpur, Mangalore,
Vellore, Thane,
Gwalior, Agra, Nash
Rourkela, Kanpur,
Madurai, Tumakuru,
Phase September
27 Kota, Thanjavur,
II 2016
Namchi, Jalandhar,
Shimoga, Salem,
Ajmer, Varanasi,
Kohima, Hubli-
Dharwad,
Aurangabad,
Vadodara
Phase Year Count Cities

Phase June 2017 30 Thiruvananthapuram

III Naya Raipur, Rajkot,
Amaravati, Patna,
Karimnagar,
Muzaffarpur,
Puducherry,
Gandhinagar,
Srinagar, Sagar,
Karnal, Satna,
Bengaluru, Shimla,
Dehradun, Jhansi,
Pimpri-Chinchwad,
Bilaspur, Pasighat,
Jammu, Dahod,
Thoothukudi,
Tiruchirappalli,
Tirunelveli, Tiruppur
Phase Year Count Cities

Aizawl, Prayagraj,
Aligarh, Gangtok

Erode, Saharanpur,
Moradabad, Bareilly
Phase January
10 Itanagar, Silvassa,
IV 2018
Diu, Kavaratti, Bihar
Sharif

Phase
IV June 2018 1 Shillong
(Ext.)

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