85 out of 98 cities submitted proposals to Urban Development Ministry for Smart City Project

85 of the 98 cities submitted city level Smart City Proposals to the Ministry of Urban Development within the stipulated time. While 17 proposals were submitted yesterday, 68 proposals were received in the Ministry on the last day of submission date i.e. 15 Dec. 2015. Since, Tamil Nadu Government, preoccupied with flood management in Chennai and other parts of the state could not submit the proposals and Telangana Government sought to replace Hyderabad in the Smart City Mission by another city will be communicated later. Continuous monitoring and handholding by the senior officials of the Ministry of Urban Development helped the states and urban local bodies to meet the deadline. The Ministry organized three Smart City Consultation Workshops, one Smart City Ideas Camp, five rounds of Webinars (online consultations with Mission Director seeking clarifications) and one Proposal Enhancement Workshop to enable states and urban local bodies formulate proposals as per Mission Guidelines. Ministry of Urban Development also provided 8 Region-wise panels of consultants so that states and urban local bodies could chose consultants for preparation of smart city proposals through tendering, thereby saving on time. 30 foreign companies from 20 leading countries have been associated with preparation of smart city proposals of 45 mission cities. These include : KPMG, KcKinsey, CISCO Systems, Price Waterhouse Coopers, DeloiteToucheTohmastsu, Jones Lang La Salle, Dorsh Holding GmbH, Knight Frank, Tractabel Engineering SA, Haskoning DHV Consulting Pvt Ltd., Grant Thornton, Happold Engineers, Ecorys Netherlands BV etc. Cities with which foreign companies were associated in preparation of smart city proposals include: New Delhi Municipal Council, Agartala, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bhagalpur, Bhabaneshwar, Bhopal, Greater Mumbai, Ghaziabad,  Lucknow, Ludhiana, Pune, New Town Kolkata, Kota, Ranchi, Rourkela, Ujjain, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Tumakuru (Karnataka) etc. Total population of 98 mission cities is 13 crore accounting for 35% of country’s urban population. Population Break-up of all of these Smart Cities: No. of Cities/Towns Population Range (in Lakh) 8 Below 1 3 Between 1 to 2 30 Between 2 to 5 22 Between 5 to 10 25 Between 10 to 25 5 Between 25 to 50 5 Above 50                                                   Source: PHD Research Bureau Proposals received from Cities include: Port Blari, Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Tirupati, PasiGhat, Guwahaty,Muzaffarpur,Bhagalpur, Biharshariff, Chandigarh, Raipur, Bilaspur, Diu, Silvassa, New Delhi Muncipal Council, Panaji, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Dahod, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Faridabad, Kanal, Dharmashala, Ranchi, Belgavi, Hubbali-Dharwad, Davangere, Mangaluru, Shivamogga, Tumkuru, Kochi, Kavaratti, Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Sagar, Satna, Ujjain, Navi Mumbai, Greater, Mumbai, Nashik, Thane, Amravati, Solapur, Nagpur, KalyanDombivali, Aurangabad, Pune, Imphal, Shilllong, Aizawl, Kohima, Bhubaneshwar, Rourkela, Oulgaret, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jullandhar, Jaipur, Ajmer, Kota, Udaipur, Namchi, Greater Warangal, Agartala, Moradabad, Aligarh, Sharanpur, Bareily, Jhansi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Agra, Rampur, Dehradun, New Town Kolkata, Bidhannagar, Durgapur, Haldia