Centre announces new smart city list: Check if your city is in

NEW DELHI: Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today released a new list of 30 new cities selected under the third round of the Smart City Mission. The latest announcement takes to 90 the number of cities selected for part-financing by the Centre under this scheme.
"45 cities contested for the 40 available smart city slots but only 30 were selected to ensure their feasibility and workable plans," said Venkaiah Naidu.

Here is the list of 30 selected cities:

1. Thiruvananthapuram
2. Naya Raipur
3. Rajkot
4. ​Amravati
5. Patna
6. Karimnagar
7. Muzaffarpur
8. Puducherry
9. Gandhinagar
10. Srinagar
11. Sagar

Announcing the next batch of 30 new #SmartCities, selected under 3rd round of #SmartCity Mission, taking total number of Smart cities to 90. pic.twitter.com/PSFhUcFiw0

— M Venkaiah Naidu (@MVenkaiahNaidu) June 23, 2017

12. Karnal
13. Satna
14. Bengaluru
15. Shimla
16. Dehradun
17. Tiruppur
18. Pimpri Chinchwad
19. Bilaspur
20. Pasighat
21. Jammu
22. Dahod
23. Tirunelveli
24. Thoothukudi
25. Tiruchirapalli
26. Jhansi
27. Aizwal
28. Aligarh
29. Allahabad
30. Gangtok

Under the Smart City Mission, the Centre provides Rs 500 crore to each city over a period of five years for implementing various projects.