Smart Cities

A week after Trichy was officially announced as one of the cities for the smart city project, the civic body is not leaving any stone unturned to ensure that it is shortlisted for the first phase of funding. With 24 cities to be selected on the basis of innovative proposals submitted by them, the Trichy Corporation has hired a US-based consultant firm for framing the proposal. Sources from the city corporation confirmed that the US-based firm Jones Lang LaSalle Property Consultants India Private Ltd, in association with Townland Consultants Private...

With the Union ministry of urban development planning to select 20 cities in the first phase this year from the announced list of 98 cities for developing them as smart cities by the end of this year, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for Smart City Development Plan (SCDP) for Hyderabad and get selected to be among the 20 cities.The smart cities will be selected in three phases, 20 this year and 78 in subsequent years. The GHMC has to compete with the short-listed...

WITH the central government pushing Pimpri-Chinchwad out of the smart city plan, the Pawar family has accused the Devendra Fadnavis government of “deliberately” playing political games to undermine their status in a city “which has put all other cities in Maharashta into a shade”. The Pawars are planning to take up the issue with the Prime Minister. And so are the Shiv Sena MPs.Leading the attack, former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday told this paper that the state government had gone all-out to keep Pimpri-Chinchwad, their fiefdom, out...