98 Smart Cities announced; List

Union government on Thursday officially declared nominations of 98 cities for NDA governments flagship program: #Smartcity Mission.

Uttar Pradesh received maximum number of nominations(13) and Tamilnadu followed UP with 12 nominations.

Three cities( Vizag; tirupati & Kakinada) from Andhra Pradesh gets nominated and Telangana gets two cities( Greater Hyderabad and Greater Warangal) Centre has earmarked Rs 48,000 crore for development of 100 smart cities.Each smart city will get a Central assistance of Rs.100 crore per year for five years.Below is the List of smart cities announced by union ministry Andaman and Nicobar Islands 1 (Port Blair) Andhra Pradesh 3 (Vishakhapatnam, Tirupati, Kakinada) Arunachal Pradesh 1 (Pasighat) Assam 1 (Guwahati) Bihar 3 (Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur, Biharsharif) Chandigarh 1 Chhattisgarh 2 (Raipur, Bilaspur) Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1 (Silvassa) Daman and Diu 1 (Diu) Delhi 1 (NDMC) Goa 1 (Panaji) Gujarat 6 (Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Dahod) Haryana 2 (Karnal Faridabad) Himachal Pradesh 1 (Dharamshala) Jharkhand 1 (Ranchi) Karnataka 6 (Mangaluru, Belagavi, Shivamogga, Hubballi-Dharwad, Tumakuru, Davanegere) Kerala 1 (Kochi) Lakshadweep 1 (Kavarrati) Madhya Pradesh 7 (Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Sagar, Satna, Ujjain) Maharashtra 10 (Navi Mumbai, Nashik, Thane, Greater Mumbai, Amravati, Solapur, Nagpur, Kalyan-Dombivali, Aurangabad, Pune ) Manipur 1 (Imphal) Meghalaya 1 (Shillong) Mizoram 1 (Aizawl) Nagaland 1 (Kohima) Odisha 2 (Bhubaneshwar, Raurkela) Puducherry 1 (Oulgaret) Punjab 3 (Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar) Rajasthan 4 (Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota, Ajmer) Sikkim 1 (Namchi) Tamil Nadu 12 (Tiruchirapalli, Chennai, Tiruppur, Coimbatore, Vellore, Salem, Erode, Thanjavur, Tirunelveli, Dindigul, Madurai, Thoothukudi) Telangana 2 (Greater Hyderabad, Greater Warangal) Tripura 1 (Agartala) Uttar Pradesh 13 (Moradabad, Aligarh, Saharanpur, Bareilly, Jhansi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Agra, Rampur) Uttarakhand 1 (Dehradun) West Bengal 4 (New Town Kolkata, Bidhannagar, Durgapur, Haldia) .