India’s Smart Cities Mission (SCM), launched in 2015, aimed to transform 100 cities into modern, resilient and citizen-centric urban centres. A decade on, assessments reveal an uneven picture, with ...

India's Smart Cities Mission (SCM), launched in 2015, nears its March 2025 completion with 93% of 8,000+ projects done across 100 cities, utilizing ₹1.5 lakh crore. Boosting urban GDP to 63% (despite ...

Vietnam’s Vingroup, whose automobile subsidiary VinFast is making rapid inroads in India’s electric vehicle segment, plans to set up smart cities in several States and is in talks with the Maharashtra ...

Cities are symbols of modernity, progress, development and also chaos. The mobility crisis, poor management of public services, precarious urban planning and insecurity make the efforts of public ...

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU, India (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grand designs to build 100 futuristic 'smart' cities in India, but as this week's devastating flooding in Chennai shows, fixing ...

A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has exposed serious lapses in the implementation of the Centre ...

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Jaipur: In an effort to strengthen the city's solid waste management system, Jaipur Smart City Ltd has decided to modernise ...