Vertical gardens to counter growing pollution on roadsVertical gardens are expensive to install, but local varieties of plants and shrubs make the installation last longer with little use of wa...
27 Dec, 2019, 01.22 PM IST
Smart poles for Internet access, EV charging to soon become a reality in Bhopal: Tarun PithodeBhopal, a capital city of Kamal Nath-headed Madhya Pradesh, is focusing on area-based development (ADB) with common utility duct, and is al...
03 Sep, 2019, 03.41 PM IST
Surat tops ranking of smart cities with largest number of projects completedSurat is closely followed by Pune at number two, Visakhapatnam, Udaipur, Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Coimbatore, Jaipur and Indore.
18 Jan, 2018, 07.41 AM IST
Smart cities take shape two years after launch of Modi’s flagship missionApart from Pune and Nagpur, three other cities which are in fairly advanced stages of commandand-control centre project rollout are Kakinad...
15 Aug, 2017, 11.54 PM IST
Varanasi appoints REPL, Grant Thornton & ABN Consulting as consultants for smart city projectThe consultants will prepare detailed reports on various components such as sewerage systems, traffic management, heritage conservation, to...
30 May, 2017, 04.53 PM IST
MobiKwik partners with Bhopal smart city initiative for paymentsThe tie-up will enable residents of Bhopal in paying taxes and bills for utility services such as electricity and water, digitally, MobiKwi...
08 May, 2017, 04.58 PM IST
Ericsson, Bharti Infratel bag Smart City projectThe venture has 7-8 projects built into one programme, on a public-private partnership model, under which Ericsson and Bharti Infratel will...
14 Apr, 2017, 10.39 AM IST
HPL Eletric & Power bags Rs 100 crore ordersThe orders include Rs 70 crore order for Bhopal Smart City Lighting project and Rs 33 crore for supplying energy meters from Southern Power...
20 Dec, 2016, 04.05 PM IST
Railway stations to be revamped into cities' new icons: Suresh Prabhu"We are making plans to redevelop 400 stations as new icons of cities. The process has already been started in this regard," Prabhu said.
11 May, 2016, 04.39 PM IST
40 cities to be selected in second round of smart city project: GovernmentForty cities will be selected for the second phase of the Smart City Mission, which is likely to be announced by June, Rajya Sabha was told...
28 Apr, 2016, 08.19 PM IST
Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei and Cisco are betting big on India’s ‘smart cities’ projectFor companies like Cisco, which are largely looking at IT solutions, the opportunity is pegged at around $25 million per city, according to...
22 Apr, 2016, 06.32 AM IST
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan set up Special Purpose Vehicles for Smart CitiesThe Ministry has also been informed that SPVs for the remaining 15 cities will be formed in the next two weeks, the release said.
20 Feb, 2016, 02.26 PM IST
US keen to participate in all 100 Smart City projectsThe government had recently announced the first batch of 20 smart cities from 11 states and Delhi.
11 Feb, 2016, 02.03 PM IST
Smart cities: Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur, Surat and Kochi among top 5Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur, Surat and Kochi are among the 20 cities which have been chosen to be developed as smart cities in India.
03 Feb, 2016, 02.42 PM IST
First list of 20 smart cities out: Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur and Surat top the listThe list of the first 20 cities to be developed as Smart Cities was announced by urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday.
29 Jan, 2016, 03.38 PM IST
Shivraj Singh Chouhan thanks PM,M Venkaiah Naidu for 3 MP cities in Smart City projectThe CM said the NDA government's concept of Smart Cities generated a healthy competition among cities to improve civic services in larger p...
29 Jan, 2016, 02.59 PM IST
Public cooperation must for building 'Smart cities': Kailash VijayvargiyaUrban Development and Environment Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya here said public cooperation and awareness is necessary for developing a 'S...
14 Feb, 2015, 02.43 PM IST