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As per latest news, Honorable Union Urban Development minister Mr M Venkaiah Naidu declared that there is a huge global interest in India's Smart City mission and many companies from 14 countries like US, Canada, UK, France, Japan have been nominated for planning of Smart City plans for 42 mission cities.
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Union Urban Development minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the mission has produced much interest overseas and companies from 14 countries including Italy, US, the Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Norway, Japan & Abu Dhabi have been selected for planning of city level Smart City Plans for 42 of the Mission cities.
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As per sources, Mr Naidu said that for the first time in India, the cities are being selected depend upon competition under an urban development mission. As per Mr Naidu the Prime Minister wants these cities to act as light houses for others to follow in due form for ensuring best quality of urban life.
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Mr Naidu declared that ministry has given time up to 15th December 2015 to urban local bodies to present their Smart City Plans (city level), which will then be analyzed in the 2nd stage of the City Challenge Competition for selecting the 1st batch of 20 cities as per rankings for financing through out this financial year.
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As per the current news, Union Urban Development minister M Venkaiah Naidu said that the Smart City project is a laborious as well as challenging work. It is troublesome however doable. Real Estate Regulation Bill, which has gotten the gesture from the Parliament Select Committee will be proposed to the Cabinet shortly and it could be moved in the following session of Parliament.
According to most recent news, Spain has proposed to help in creating Delhi as the first worldwide and savvy city in India under the system of this draft MoU. It has thought of the draft MoU further to the visit of Naidu to Barcelona to go to the Smart City Expo World Congress in November a year ago and the meeting of Spain's secretary of state for exchange Jamie Garcia Legaz in February this year with Naidu. Respecting Spain's enthusiasm for the India's drive of building savvy urban communities, Naidu told the assignment that the draft MoU would be inspected by the administration for further activity in meeting with every single concerned agencies.
According to sources, The Spanish minister said that his nation is among the world pioneers in building rail route and metro systems, streets and ports other than in transportation, reusing of waste, water administration and advancing renewable vitality sources and was quick to connect with India in its endeavors for foundation advancement.
As per my knowledge, the visiting minister alluded to the far reaching work done by Spanish organizations in Latin American nations in such manner. Mr Naidu gave an itemized record of the measures being taken by the focal government to advance speculations into the nation by upgrading the simplicity of working together, creating foundation, changing FDI standards and so on.
Amid the talks it transpired that Spanish outside minister is going to India following 42 years on a significant visit and five abnormal state visits of Spanish pioneers to India have occurred amid 2015 so far including those of ministers of barrier, exchange and PM's unique agent highlighting Spain's enthusiasm for the advancement activities of the Indian government.
Hi MR Kunal, According to sources, Spain on Monday proposed to chip in with India in creating keen and supportable urban areas in the nation and introduced a draft of a memorandum of understanding in such manner. The draft MoU identifying with urban advancement was displayed amid the meeting of an abnormal state Spanish assignment drove by minister of foreign affairs and cooperation Jose Garcia Margallo y Marfil with the urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu in Parliament House.
Yes, there are some certain criteria & parameters , which will go about as terms & conditions while picking urban zones . For further situating of urban regions for last decision, the States have proposed the parameters and individual weight ages that incorporate.: Self-financing ability(25% weight-age), Institutional Systems and Capacities(25%), Existing Service Levels and conferred arrangement of activity for a long time (25%), Past reputation in actualizing reforms(15%) and Quality of Vision Document(10%).
According to me, on the progressions front, the states have prescribed two plans of changes freely for little and metropolitan urban groups, land adjustment, expanded FAR standards with clear methodologies, quick progress towards e-organization and online organization transport, Integrated GIS based Master Plans including for sanitation, conveyability, land utilization, modernized system, catastrophe peril organization and ecological change, methodology changes, settled residencies for Mayors and city powers and so on..
According as far as anyone is concerned, there are the states have proposed two arrangements of changes independently for enhancing incomes through 100% gathering of assessments and client charges, least instructive capabilities for corporators and their ability building, Economic Master Planning for urban communities before physical Master Plans, making of city unit, credit score and so forth.
Concerning financing, the states have proposed that notwithstanding PPP model, they ought to be given the choice of EPC(Engineering Procurement Contract), client expense based concessions to advance private segment investment, forcing effect charge on associations that advantage from enhanced base, making bunch based tasks to enhance reasonability of ventures for private subsidizing, government support for making activities practical for private speculators, unbundling of administrations to make ventures speculation commendable, formation of a low cost pooled store with the backing of Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Pension Funds, Sovereign Funds and so on, Credit Rating of urban communities, strategy changes to make urban undertakings suitable, for example, backing to offer of manure arranged from strong waste as given to compound composts, corporatization of administrations and so on.
According to diverse sources, Minister of States Babul Supriyo has encouraged the state governments to degenerate important capacities, trusts and functionaries to the urban neighborhood bodies to empower them to take up the difficulties under shrewd urban communities activity.
As per me, choice of urban areas for improvement as brilliant urban communities, the States and different partners have recommended the accessibility of a Vision and City Development Strategy, Progress under Swachh Bharat Mission, Timely Payment of Salaries to Municipal Staff, Information and Grievance Redressal Mechanism and e-News Letter as fundamental qualification conditions for support in the Smart City Challenge rivalry.
In my perspective, last suggestions of states and different partners were today displayed at the finishing up Plenary Session led by the Minister of State for Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Babul Supriyo. Foremost Secretaries and Municipal Commissioners from around 25 states, industry agents and urban specialists partook in the consultations before turning out with the route forward.
According as far as anyone is concerned, the path forward rose after extraordinary talks at the two day Consultation Workshop of States and Stakeholders on Smart Cities that closed today. The essential partner counsels were sorted out by the Ministry of Urban Development on the heading of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take the states on board before continuing further with a the dispatch of the Smart Cities activity.
As of late I came to know from news that, the keen urban areas building activity crossed a significant development today with the states and different partners turning out with the criteria for choice and positioning of urban communities and extensively conceding to inventive financing models and urban administration changes to be actualized for building 100 brilliant urban communities.