PM Narendra Modi had announced his vision to set up 100 smart cities across the country soon

after his government was sworn into power mid last year. Since then a race has been on among
cities to land on the list that the ministry of urban development is compiling. The 100 smart cities
mission intends to promote adoption of smart solutions for efficient use of available assets,
resources and infrastructure. Dipak Dash explains what these smart cities are and how they will
work.

1.
What is a 'smart city'?
A city equipped with basic infrastructure to give a decent quality of life, a clean and sustainable
environment through application of some smart solutions.

2.
Basic infrastructure
Assured water and electricity supply, sanitation and solid waste management, efficient urban mobility
and public transport, robust IT connectivity, e-governance and citizen participation, safety and security
of citizens.

3.
Smart solutions
Public information, grievance redressal, electronic service delivery, citizens engagement, waste to
energy & fuel, waste to compost, 100% treatment of waste water, smart meters & management,
monitoring water quality, renewable source of energy, efficient energy and green building, smart
parking, intelligent traffic management system.

4.
What's the next step?
The next step is identification of the 100 cities and for this a city challenge competition to be conducted
by Bloomberg Philanthropies is envisaged. The current plan looks to select 20 cities this year followed
by 40 each in the next two years.

5.

Smart Cities Council India has been formed

It is part of the US-based Smart Cities Council, which is a consortium of smart city practitioners and
experts, with a 100-plus member and advisor organizations operating in over 140 countries.

6.
All states will get at least one smart city
A Special Purpose Vehicle will be created for each city to implement Smart City action plan. The SPV
will be signed with the urban local body, state government and the Centre for implementation of the
project.

7.
How it will work
After government announces the guidelines, states will be asked to nominate names of cities for a
City Challenge Competition and the chosen ones will get Central fund of Rs 100 crore each year for 5
years.

8.
The basic criteria for selection of a city/municipal area

9.
Area-based development
1. Retrofitting 500 acres: Planning in an existing built-up area in a municipal ward, preparing
plan with citizen participation (example: Connaught Place in Delhi, Bhendi Bazar in Mumbai).
2. Greenfield 250 acres: Introduce smart solutions in a vacant area using innovative planning
(example:

land

pooling/land

reconstitution

in

Outer

Delhi,

GIFT

city

in

Gujarat).

3. Redevelopement 50 acres: Replacement of existing built-up area and preparing a new layout
plan with enhanced infrastructure by way of mixed land use (example: Kidwai Nagar in Delhi).

List of 100 Smart Cities of India Proposed by Arun Jaitley in Budget 2014-15
In the 2014-15 Budget Session, the Finance Minister of India Mr. Arun Jaitely is allotted the 7,060 Crores of
Rupees for the 100 Smart Cities. The Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi is going to develop the 100
Smart Cities as Satellite City's of Larger Cities by modernizing the present Cities.

Maharashtra
1.Pune

2.Mumbai

3.Nagpur 4.Nashik 5.Aurangabad 6.Bhivandi

West Bengal
7.Calcutta

8.Durgapur

9.Haldia 10.Habra 11.Jangipur

Gujarat
12.Ahmedabad 13.Surat

14.Vadodara 15.Rajkot 16.Bhavnagar 17.Junagadh

Madhya Pradesh
19.Bhopal 20.Indore 21.Gwalior 22.Burhanpur

Tamil Nadu

23.Jabalpur

18.Gandhi Nagar

24.Chennai 25.Coimbatore

26.Madurai

27.Tiruchirappalli

28.Salem

29.Tirunelveli

Karnataka
30.Bangalore

31.Gulbarga

32.Bidar 33.Bijapur 34.Badami

35.Pattadakal

36.Mahakuta

Kerala
37.Thiruvananthapuram

38.Kollam

39.Kottayam

40.Tiruvalla 41.Ernakulam

42.Cochin

Telangana
44.Hyderabad

45.Warangal

46.Karimnagar

47.Nizamabad

48.Nalgonda

Andhra Pradesh
49.Guntur

50.Vijayawada

51.Kurnool

52.Chittoor

Uttar Pradesh
53.Kanpur

54.Allahabad 55.Lucknow

56.Jhansi

57.Faizabad

58.Varanasi

Rajasthan
59.Jaipur

60.Ajmer

61.Bharatpur

62.Bikaner

63.Jodhapur

Punjab
66.Ludhiana

Bihar

67.Amritsir

68.Jalandhar

69.Patiala

64.Kota

65.Udipur

43.Thrissur

70.Muzaffarapur

71.Patna 72.Gaya 73.Bhagalpur

74.Bihar Sharif

Haryana
75.Faridabad

76.Gurgaon

77.Panipat

78.Ambala

Assam
79.Guwahati

80.Tinsukia

81.Obalguri

82.Tangla 83.Goalpara

Odisha
84.Bhubaneswar

85.Cuttack

86.Rourkela 87.Sambalpur 88.Balasore

Himachal Pradesh
89.Shimla

90.Dehradoon

Uttarakhand
91.Haridwar

92.Roorkee

Jharkhand
93.Jamshedpur

94.Dhanbad 95.Ranchi

Sikkim
96.Gangtok

97.Pelling

98.Yuksam

Manipur
99.Bishnupur

100.Chandel