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SME Times News Bureau | 31 May, 2014
The NDA government would kick-start building 100 smart cities, as
envisaged in the BJP's poll manifesto, union Urban Development Minister
M. Venkaiah Naidu said Friday.
"Our mission is to build 100 smart
cities across the country with GIS (Geographic Information
Systems)-based town planning, using the latest technology and
infrastructure, integrated waste management and advanced transport
system," Naidu told reporters here.
Naidu, a Bharatiya Janata
Party Rajya Sabha lawmaker from Karnataka, is on a maiden visit to the
city after his cabinet induction Monday.
In line with the 100-day
timetable Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set Thursday to all the
central ministers, Naidu has called for a meeting of urban development
ministers from all states in New Delhi June 2 to discuss modalities on
achieving the objectives, including development of 100 smart cities,
infrastructure development in metros, cities and towns and housing for
all by 2022.
"Irrespective of party affiliations, there will be
no politics on development issues and my ministry will reach out to
every state as urban infrastructure development is one of our top
priorities to improve the quality of live and regulate growth of metros
and decongest cities," Naidu asserted.
According to the 2011
census, 32 percent (377 million) of the country's population live in
urban areas as against 28 percent in 2001 and 17 percent in 1991.
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