The government is also planning to add five new cities under the Smart City MissionLaunched in 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Smart Cities Mission is a programme aimed at developing 100 cities into so-called smart cities.

Under this model, the top 20 cities, which have shown better development by leveraging new-age technologies, will share the know-how of implementing these technologies, financial management support, detailed project reports, feasibility studies, and impact assessments to the bottom 20 cities.

To map the progress of the Smart Cities Mission over the last five years, the government is also going to publish a report card for the 100 selected smart cities in June 2020.

For developing them into smart cities, the government had approved INR 2 Lakh Cr for 5,151 projects.

Besides these 100 cities, the government is also looking to develop five new smart cities under the Smart Cities initiative. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582363806.2122703/Govt-Mulls-Buddy-System-For-Smart-Cities-To-Push-Development?ref=audio_experience