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Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said that all the projects envisaged under smart city plans of Jaipur and Udaipur will take off by next month and 50% of projects in Ajmer and Kota would enter implementation stage.
He was addressing the media in Jaipur after holding a review of the implementation and progress of new urban missions in Rajasthan. Chief minister Vasundhara Raje was also present on the occasion. Rajasthan is among the 11 states in the country implementing all the six urban missions including the heritage city development and augmentation yojana with the inclusion of Ajmer under this mission.
“Rajasthan is the first major state to have got smart city plans approved for all the four mission cities in just two rounds of competition. Smart city plans of Jaipur and Udaipur got approved in the first batch of 20 smart cities and of Ajmer and Kota in the second round of competition even as one more round of competition is currently underway,” he said.
