Accelerating Infrastructure Projects

March 2018

Over the past 10 years, India has successfully executed projects such as the Golden Quadrilateral road programme and port expansion projects in the c...

Tags: Port, Infrastructure, NHDP, NMDP, DFC, Investments, PMO, KPMG-PMI, GDP, FDI, Make in India, Digital India, Smart Cities, PPP, FICCI

Three of India’s Smart Cities selected among finalists for WWF’s One Planet City Challenge

March 2018

Three Indian cities – Panaji, Pune and Rajkot – have been selected as national finalists in the 2017-2018 edition of WWF’s One Planet City Challenge ...

Tags: WWF, OPCC, Climate Registry platform, India Smart Cities mission, Energy Saving Cell, Dr TS Panwar

Land allocation in DMIC gathers pace as big anchor investors arrive

March 2018

The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project has now shifted into high gear as land allocations begin in smart cities that are taking shape on...

Tags: Micromax, South Korea Hyosung, Greenfield smart cities, Hyosung Corporation, AURIC, DMIC project, IITGNL, IT, ITES, Biotech, Pharma, R&D

Budget 2018-19: Infrastructure, Rural Development key

March 2018

Infrastructure development has been one of the top priorities of the Union Budget 2018-19 presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitely in Parliamen...

Tags: Infrastructure development, Union Budget 2018-19, Arun Jaitely, Smart Cities mission, transport infrastructure, MSME sector, Abhijit Gupta, CASE India, PMGSY, Sandeep Singh, Tata Hitachi, Schwing Stetter India, Construction Machinery Co, ELGi Equipments, ZF India

Here's tracking opportunities and upcoming tenders in India's Smart Cities

March 2018

The numbers speak for themselves. A total investment of Rs 191,155 crore has been proposed by 90 cities under their smart city plans....

Tags: Investment, Smart city plans, Smart Cities Council India, Pratap Padode, D Chowdhury, Gaia Smart Cities, Smart Cities Mission, Grant Thornton India LLP, RFP, ICC, SPV, Suresh Subudhi, LED projects, Swachh Bharat Mission, Discoms

Can Digital India have a major role to play in the smart cities mission? Find out!

March 2018

'The major support from Digital India to the Smart Cities mission has come in the form of Aadhaar,' says Korath V Mathew, IT and e-Governance Consult...

Tags: Digital India, Smart Cities mission, Korath V Mathew, IT and e-Governance Consultant, LED lights, PPP, Hitech telecom tower, MoUD, Infrastructure, Ministry of IT

Greenfield cities are overcoming and succeeding challenges on the smart run

March 2018

While there is a set of 100 Smart Cities under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) mission, there is also the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (...

Tags: 100 Smart Cities, MoUD, Department of Commerce, AECOM, Jagdish Salgaonkar, Alkesh Sharma, DMICDC, SPV

Solving India's biggest problem of mobility will open opportunities for technology and service providers

March 2018

India's rapidly growing urban population (590 million by 2030) and zooming motorisation rate (400 per cent increase in 15 years) is making cities com...

Tags: Mobility, Smart Cities, Mohit Kochar, Awadhesh Kumar Jha, Rasik Pansare, Get My Parking, Fortum India, RRTS, Smart mobility technologies