Smart Cities
Smart cities, one of the ambitious projects, is on with full steam with an
investment entailing Rs 48,000 crore from the Centre. 100 smart cities will be
developed in next five years. The Centre has approved spending of about Rs one
lakh crore on urban development under two new urban missions in next five years.
The twin projects unveiled a few months ago comprise the smart city mission and
the Atal Mission for rejuvenation and urban transformation ( AMRUT ) of 500
cities with outlays of Rs 48,000 crore and Rs 50,000 crore.
The smart cities mission seeks to ensure basic infrastructure services to enable a decent quality of life in urban pockets and a clean and sustainable environment and adoption of smart solutions. Fourteen countries have expressed interest in building smart cities. These include US, Japan, China, Singapore, Germany, France , Netherlands, Sweden, Israel, Turkey and Australia. Each selected city, under the mission, would get central assistance of Rs100 crore per annum for five years and each state will short list a certain number of smart city aspirants as per the norms. Work is under way to enlist regions.
Citing progress on the growth agenda, official sources say Rs 15,500 crore contracts were given in the past few months by the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation Limited (DFCCL). The progress on the ambitious projects could be judged from the fact a sum of Rs 100 crore per month on the Khurja–Kanpur section is being spent alone against earlier investment of Rs 30 crore per month.The value of contracts awarded since November by the DFCCL is a whopping Rs 15,485 crore and it is more than total works awarded by the same organisation in the past six years, that stands at Rs.13,125 crore, said officials. Most of these contracts are for the construction of track and structures and electrical and signalling installations on the Western and Eastern Freight corridors
The smart cities mission seeks to ensure basic infrastructure services to enable a decent quality of life in urban pockets and a clean and sustainable environment and adoption of smart solutions. Fourteen countries have expressed interest in building smart cities. These include US, Japan, China, Singapore, Germany, France , Netherlands, Sweden, Israel, Turkey and Australia. Each selected city, under the mission, would get central assistance of Rs100 crore per annum for five years and each state will short list a certain number of smart city aspirants as per the norms. Work is under way to enlist regions.
Citing progress on the growth agenda, official sources say Rs 15,500 crore contracts were given in the past few months by the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation Limited (DFCCL). The progress on the ambitious projects could be judged from the fact a sum of Rs 100 crore per month on the Khurja–Kanpur section is being spent alone against earlier investment of Rs 30 crore per month.The value of contracts awarded since November by the DFCCL is a whopping Rs 15,485 crore and it is more than total works awarded by the same organisation in the past six years, that stands at Rs.13,125 crore, said officials. Most of these contracts are for the construction of track and structures and electrical and signalling installations on the Western and Eastern Freight corridors
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