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These cities made the cut (With: Centre announces list of 98 Smart Cities)

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List of 98 cities and towns selected under the Smart Cities mission (population in brackets):

Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Port Blair (140,572)

Andhra Pradesh: Vishakhapatnam (18,78,980), Tirupati (374,260), Kakinada (350,986)

Arunachal Pradesh: Pasighat (24,656)

Assam: Guwahati (962,334)

Bihar: Muzaffarpur (393,724), Bhagalpur (410,210), Biharsharif (296,889)

Chandigarh: Chandigarh (10,55,450)

Chhatisgarh: Raipur (10,47,389), Bilaspur (365,579)

Daman & Diu: Diu (23,991)

Dadra & Nagar Haveli: Silvassa (98,032)

Delhi: New Delhi Municipal Council area (249,998)

Goa: Panaji (100,000)

Gujarat: Gandhinagar (292,797), Ahmedabad (55,77,940), Surat (44,67,797), Vadodara (17,52,371), Rajkot (13,23,363), Dahod (130,530)

Haryana: Karnal (302,140), Faridabad (14,14,050)

Himachal Pradesh: Dharamshala (22,580)

Jharkhand: Ranchi (10,73,427)

Karnataka: Mangaluru (484,785), Belagavi (488,292), Shivamogga (322,428), Hubballi-Dharwad (943,857), Tumakuru (305,821), Davanegere (435,128)

 

Kerala: Kochi (601,574)

Lakshadweep: Kavaratti: (11,210)

Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal (19,22,130), Indore (21,95,274), Jabalpur (12,16,445), Gwalior (11,59,032), Sagar (273,296), Satna (280,222), Ujjain (515,215)

Maharashtra: Navi Mumbai (11,19,000), Nashik (14,86,000), Thane (18,41,000), Greater Mumbai (1,24,00,000), Amravati (745,000), Solapur (952,000), Nagpur (24,60,000), Kalyan-Dombivali (15,18,000), Aurangabad (11,65,000), Pune (31,24,000)

Manipur: Imphal (268,243)

Meghalaya: Shillong (354,325)

Mizoram: Aizawl (291,000)

Nagaland: Kohima (107,000)

Odisha: Bhubaneshwar (840,834), Raurkela (310,976),

Puducherry: Oulgaret (300,104)

Punjab: Ludhiana (16,18,879), Jalandhar (868,181), Amritsar (11,55,664)

Rajasthan: Jaipur (30,73,350), Udaipur (475,150), Kota (10,01,365), Ajmer (551,360)

Sikkim: Namchi (12,190)

Tamil Nadu: Tiruchirapalli (916,674), Tirunelveli (474,838), Dindigul (207,327), Thanjavur (222,943), Tiruppur (877,778), Salem (831,038), Vellore (504,079), Coimbatore (16,01,438), Madurai (15,61,129), Erode (498,129), Thoothukudi (370,896), Chennai (67,27,000)

Telangana: Greater Hyderabad (67,31,790), Greater Warangal (819,406)

Tripura: Agartala (400,004)

Uttar Pradesh**: Moradabad (887,871), Aligarh (874,408), Saharanpur (705,478), Bareilly (903,668), Jhansi (505,693), Kanpur (27,65,348), Allahabad (11,12,544), Lucknow (28,17,105), Varanasi (11,98,491), Ghaziabad (16,48,643), Agra (15,85,704), Rampur (325,313)

Uttarakhand: Dehradun (583,971)

West Bengal: New Town Kolkata (36,541), Bidhannagar (633,704), Durgapur (571,000), Haldia (272,000)

*Jammu & Kashmir has asked for more time to decide on the potential Smart City.

**Twelve cities have been shortlisted from Uttar Pradesh against 13 cities allocated to the state.

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First Published: Aug 27 2015 | 6:06 PM IST

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