\u2022It is an initiative of the MoHUA launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on June 25, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022To promote cities that provide core infrastructure, and a clean and sustainable environment, 100 cities (to be developed as Smart Cities) have been selected through a two-stage competition (from January 2016 to June 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u202266 of the cities are small (less than 1 million population) and are implementing two-thirds of the projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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