Articles for Cities & Local Government

Pink City to emerge as Green City: Vasundhara Raje

The Jaipur city will be beautified with new parks, better road landscape, walkways and elevated roads in a phased manner in the near future, said Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje

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Indore Development Authority to construct 5,000 houses

To fulfill the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we have kept the target of building 5,000 homes for people in lower income groups in urban areas, said Indore Development Authority Chairman Shankar Lalwani

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The Internet of Things and Smart Cities

IoT can be a powerful tool to help reduce physical monitoring in areas like traffic management, remote health services, building automation, security provision and asset tracking

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The Era of the Safe City

Urban areas around the world are moving beyond traditional municipal security to embrace the ‘safe city’ approach

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Make cities clean before making 'smart cities': Fadnavis

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the state government will extend financial assistance from the reserve funds to the civic bodies on basis of their performance of unit in keeping cities clean and in waste management

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Gurgaon to prepare disaster management plans at micro level

The district administration will prepare disaster management plans at micro levels and will form teams of 'first responders' in various government institutions, schools and colleges to help tackle any natural calamity

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Centre, UP to distribute 13 lakh LED bulbs in Varanasi

The Centre and Uttar Pradesh government in association with Energy Efficiency Services Limited will distribute 13 lakh LED bulbs as well as will replace 36,077 conventional street lights with LEDs in Varanasi

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UD Ministry wants revenue share from GST pie

The Urban Development Ministry has asked for a specific share of revenues from the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) for the urban local bodies in different states to improve their dismal financial condition

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