Smart City contracts to show results by June 2018, says minister

Only 6.3% of all projects sanctioned under the Smart Cities Mission were under implementation till July

Contracts already awarded for smart cities will bear visible results by June 2018, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.
 
Speaking at the 33rd India Economic Summit, being jointly organised by the World Economic Forum and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Puri said, “Hundreds of thousands of crores worth of contracts have already been awarded and work is in full swing”.
 
The minister’s comments attain significance since only 6.3 per cent of all projects sanctioned under the Smart Cities Mission were under implementation till July. Of the 2,895 projects worth Rs 1.3 lakh