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  • May 04, 2023
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Smart Cities Mission : Extended From June 2023 To June 2024

News: The Smart Cities Mission’s deadline has been moved from June 2023 to June 2024 by the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry (MoHUA).

On June 25, 2015, the MoHUA’s Smart Cities Mission programme was introduced as a centrally sponsored scheme.

Through a two-stage competition (from January 2016 to June 2018), 100 cities to be developed as Smart Cities were chosen in order to promote cities that offer core infrastructure as well as a clean and sustainable environment.

66 of the cities have a population of less than 1 million and are carrying out two-thirds of the projects.

It aims to improve quality of life through innovative solutions, focus on sustainable and inclusive development by developing replicable models that serve as beacons for other aspirant cities, and drive economic growth through thorough work on the city’s social, economic, physical, and institutional pillars.