Modi government's ambitious ‘Smart Cities’ project has shortlisted 98 cities but Bengaluru and Patna don't figure in the list.
Out of 98 cities selected for the Rs 48,000 crore 'Smart Cities' project, 24 are capital cities, 24 are business and industrial centres, 18 are of cultural and
tourism importance, 5 are port cities, and 3 being education and health care hubs,
Nine capital cities that could not be nominated for SmartCity development are Patna, Itanagar, Shimla, Banglaore, Daman, Thiruvanathapuram, Puducherry, Gangtok and Kohima.
While UP has maximum of 13 cities, followed by 12 by Tamil Nadu and 10 by Maharashtra to be developed as Smart Cities, Madhya Pradesh has seven cities in the project.
Karnataka and Gujarat have six cities each while Bihar and Andhra has three each and rest of the states have two and one cities respectively in the project.
Check out the 98 cities that will see a major transformation!
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh
Vishakhapatnam
Tirupati
Kakinada
Arunachal Pradesh
Pasighat
Assam
Guwahati
Bihar
Muzaffarpur
Bhagalpur
Biharsharif
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Raipur
Bilaspur
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Silvassa
Daman and Diu
Diu
Delhi (NDMC)
Goa
Panaji
Gujarat
Gandhinagar
Ahmedabad
Surat
Vadodara
Rajkot
Dahod
Haryana
Karnal
Faridabad
Himachal Pradesh
Dharamshala
Jharkhand
Ranchi
Karnataka
Mangaluru
Belagavi
Shivamogga
Hubballi-Dharwad
Tumakuru
Davanegere
Kerala
Kochi
Lakshadweep
Kavarrati
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal
Indore
Jabalpur
Gwalior
Sagar
Satna
Ujjain
Maharashtra
Navi Mumbai
Nashik
Thane
Greater Mumbai
Amravati
Solapur
Nagpur
Kalyan-Dombivali
Aurangabad
Pune
Manipur
Imphal
Meghalaya
Shillong
Mizoram
Aizawl
Nagaland
Kohima
Odisha
Bhubaneshwar
Raurkela
Puducherry
Oulgaret
Punjab
Ludhiana
Jalandhar
Amritsar
Rajasthan
Jaipur
Udaipur
Kota
Ajmer
Sikkim
Namchi
Tamil Nadu
Tiruchirapalli
Chennai
Tiruppur
Coimbatore
Vellore
Salem
Erode
Thanjavur
Tirunelveli
Dindigul
Madurai
Thoothukudi
Telangana
Greater Hyderabad
Greater Warangal
Tripura
Agartala
Uttar Pradesh
Moradabad
Aligarh
Saharanpur
Bareilly
Jhansi
Kanpur
Allahabad
Lucknow
Varanasi
Ghaziabad
Agra
Rampur
Uttarakhand
Dehradun
West Bengal
New Town Kolkata
Bidhannagar
Durgapur
Haldia
