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Names Of 98 Cities Selected Under Smart Cities Mission Announced


The State / UT wise list is as follows… Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Port Blair), Andhra Pradesh (Vishakhapatnam, Tirupati and Kakinada), Arunachal Pradesh (Pasighat), Assam (Guwahati), Bihar (Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur and Biharsharif), Chandigarh, Chhatisgarh (Raipur and Bilaspur), Daman & Diu (Diu), Dadra & Nagar Haveli (Silvassa), Delhi (New Delhi Municipal Council), Goa (Panaji), Gujarat (Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Dahod), Haryana (Karnal and Faridabad), Himachal Pradesh (Dharamshala), Jharkhand (Ranchi), Karnataka (Mangaluru, Belagavi, Shivamogga, Hubballi-Dharwad, Tumakuru and Davanegere), Kerala (Kochi), Lakshadweep (Kavaratti), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Sagar, Satna and Ujjain), Maharashtra (Navi Mumbai, Nashik, Thane, Greater Mumbai, Amravati, Solapur, Nagpur, Kalyan-Dombivali, Aurangabad and Pune), Manipur (Imphal), Meghalaya (Shillong), Mizoram (Aizawl), Nagaland (Kohima), Odisha (Bhubaneshwar and Raurkela), Puducherry (Oulgaret), Punjab (Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar), Rajasthan (Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota and Ajmer), Sikkim (Namchi), Tamil Nadu (Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Dindigul, Thanjavur, Tiruppur, Salem, Vellore, Coimbatore, Madurai, Erode, Thoothukudi and Chennai), Telangana (Greater Hyderabad and Greater Warangal), Tripura (Agartala), Uttar Pradesh (Moradabad, Aligarh, Saharanpur, Bareilly, Jhansi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Agra and Rampur), Uttarakhand (Dehradun) as well as West Bengal (New Town Kolkata, Bidhannagar, Durgapur and Haldia). 

Jammu & Kashmir has asked for more time to decide on the potential Smart City and 12 Cities have been shortlisted from Uttar Pradesh against 13 cities allocated to that State.