3rd List of Smart cities announced by Union minister

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi made it to the list of 27 Smart Cities that was announced on September 20, 2016.

Vadodara, Agra, Nagpur, Ajmer, Amritsar, Gwalior, Thane and Thanjavur are some of the other cities that have been named to be developed as smart cities. The 27 cities will require investment of Rs 66,883 crore.

So far, the urban development ministry has selected 60 cities in three rounds (Check Old smart cities list here) and has covered 27 states and Union Territories. Only nine more states and UTs are still to get on board including Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir.

1	Maharastra	Aurangabad
2		Kalyan-Dombivali
3		Nagpur
4		Nasik
5		Thane
6	Tamilnadu	Madhurai
7		Salem
8		Thanjavuru
9		Vellore
10	Karnataka	Hubbali-Dharwad
11		Mangaluru
12		Shivamogga
13		Thumakuru
14	Uttarpradesh	Agra
15		Kanpur
16		Varanasi
17	Madhyapradesh	Gwallior
18		Ujjain
19	Punjab	Amritsar
20		Jalandhar
21	Rajastan	Ajmar
22		Kota
23	Andhra Pradesh	Tirupati
24	Odisha	Rourkela
25	Gujarat	Vadodara
26	Sikkim	Namchi
27	Nagaland	Kohima

A maximum of five cities from Maharashtra have found place in the list of new cities that was released by Union urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday. Four cities, each from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, have made it to the list followed by three from Uttar Pradesh and two each from Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan. One city each from Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Gujarat, Sikkim and Nagaland has been selected in this round.

Details:

According to urban development ministry's estimate, Rs 1.44 lakh crore investment has been proposed by the 60 cities that have been selected so far under their smart city plans. 

• 82 projects are already under implementation in the first batch of 20 smart cities and another 113 projects will soon take off the ground.