Published on: December 3, 2021
SMART CITIES MISSION
SMART CITIES MISSION
NEWS
The Centre has extended the timeline for the implementation of the Smart Cities Mission to June 2023. Reason cited being Pandemic
ABOUT
- Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- Launched in 2015
- Developing citizen-friendly and self-sustainable urban settlements
- First Target – 100 cities being developed between January 2016 to June 2018
- Minimum of five years is given for a city to be completed
- Aims to focus on innovative digital technologies interlinked with its ‘Digital India’, providing technology solutions such as surveillance systems to reduce crime and improve safety of residents
- Projects related to e-governance, mobility, integrated traffic management and solid waste management have been envisaged.
- process starts with the formation of an implementing agency, a special purpose vehicle (SPV), promoted by the state/Union Territory and the urban local body, with a 50% equity shareholding each. The SPV, formed as a limited company, is governed by the Companies Act, 2013.
- With the Centre preparing a 60-point action plan MoHUA has also begun work to finalise its recommendation for providing Integrated Command and Control Centres (ICCCs) as a service to states and smaller cities