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Smart Cities Is a Mission To Improve Ease of Living

[New Delhi]Smart Cities Is a Mission To Improve Ease of Living
Hardeep Puri said that “Smart Cities Mission is a step in the direction of achieving our vision to improve the ease of living particularly for the poor, women, elderly and differently abled people.
Smart Cities Summit organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry here today, Hardeep S. Puri, Minister of State(I/C) for Housing & Urban Affairs informed that 90 cities have been selected so far. The selection of ten more cities will be announced shortly.
.The quality of some of the smart city plans can be ascertained by the fact that Bhubaneswar smart city plan was adjudged as the best city plan by American Planners Association. This is also first time that cities have created an institutional mechanism (SPVS) at the city level. Till now 82 SPVs have been formed and considering the capacity gaps existing at cities,