The purpose of the Smart City Mission is to drive economic growth and improve the quality of life of people by local area development and technology . The objective is also to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions.
The major challenges in this would be to turn slums into better planned ones, & improving living of the whole City. The area based development will be carried out by the way of City Improvement, City renewal, & City extension in which New areas to be developed around cities.
The mission is going to cover 100 cities & its duration will be five years. [2015 to 2020].
There are different stages in a selection of smart cities 1st stage is Intra state competition where state governments to shortlist potential smart cities according to the criteria of MoUD(Ministry of Urban Development) , on the basis of that the list of potential 100 smart cities is announced, on next stage each of potential smart city has to prepare a proposal, for which then evolution is done by panel of experts where selected cities would be declared as Round 1 smart cities, then selected cities to prepare SPV (special purpose vehicle) & start implementation of SCP( smart city proposal).& other cities get chance to improve their proposal for next round of the challenge.
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