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The power turnaround of Uttar Pradesh: Infrastructure, reform and energy securityUttar Pradesh has transformed from a state plagued by prolonged blackouts to one meeting record electricity demand with near round-the-cloc...
Covid-19 to delay Smart Cities completionWhile work at most of the 99 smart cities will be affected but completion of a fifth of these locations was due within a year. Work at Vara...
Armed with CCTV, GIS tech Varanasi's smart city command, control centre now 'COVID-19 War Room'Till now, the command centre in Varanasi was being used for municipal services, traffic management and water supply among others. But follo...
PM's constituency Varanasi among 20 best performing Smart Cities to guide 'laggard' onesThe Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has paired up 20 best performing cities with the 20 bottom cities and they will work as "siste...
In 4th year, mission Smart Cities sees big gainsThe ministry of housing and urban affairs would now be showcasing the big ideas in the successful cities to others so that these can be rep...
Shapoorji Pallonji to raise Rs 850 crore for two smart city projectsEluru project is a suo moto proposal and it signed the relevant contract recently.
Modern plaques to adorn all 84 ghats along the Ganga in VaranasiThe plaque at the Rajendra Prasad Ghat was installed in 1985, when Rajiv Gandhi launched a campaign to rid the Ganga of pollution.
Varanasi, Lucknow to get smart meters by year endThe roll-out to high loss and high congestion consumers will be prioritised in these cities, and the plan will include replacing basic mete...
For ‘Smart’ Kashi, high-quality cow shelter planned“Varanasi performs poorly in city liveability index and infrastructure services,” says a VSCL document, which was reviewed by ET. “One of t...
Centre’s new plan to turn Varanasi greenThe move is an initiative of Piyush Goyal, who recently visited Germany and was impressed with the green energy initiatives undertaken by t...
Varanasi to have a 7D Smart City planOne of the USP's of the DPR will be that it will have scope for incorporating future developments, even beyond the Smart City infrastructur...
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...
IIT Kharagpur collaborates with British Geological Survey to turn Varanasi into smart cityThe preservation of archaeological sites and the management of flooding hazards and the sustainability of water supplies would also be unde...
27 new cities selected under Centre’s Smart Cities missionThe new cities are from 12 states and have proposed to invest a total of Rs 66,883 crore under their respective Smart City plans.
Varanasi ready with 6-pillar plan to enter smart city raceThe city has assured strategic partnerships with numerous companies like Uber, Philips and Ericsson to deliver its vision of a “confluence ...
Varanasi leaving no stone unturned to be Smart CityThe city has been advised to build on its strengths of being a heritage city and one of the oldest cities dating back 4,000 years.
Smart City plan of Varanasi identifies traffic congestion and encroachment as major problemsThe plan says that an ‘Intelligent Traffic Management’ project is the choice of a majority in the “unplanned 4,000-years-old city” of Varan...
Need to focus on smart villages, not smart cities: Azam KhanCriticising the Smart City project of the NDA government, Azam Khan today said emphasis should be rather given on developing "smart village...
Kyoto deputy mayor to visit Varanasi tomorrowModi, during his recent visit to Japan, had sought its cooperation for modifying Varanasi into a smart city on the lines of Kyoto.
India, Japan sign MoU to develop Varanasi into 'smart city'Varanasi, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi represents in the Lok Sabha, will be developed into a 'smart city' by using the experience of ...