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Rajasthan has stood second among the 36 states and Union territories in the country in implementation of the Smart City projects with four of its cities making the mark in the mission.

In the online ranking accorded by the Union government, four Rajasthan cities, Udaipur, Kota, Ajmer and Jaipur have secured the 8th , 11th, 29th and 36th rank among the 100 smart cities of the country, the state government said Monday in a statement.

With almost 85% smart city projects completed, Udaipur now ranks third in the list of smart cities. On Friday, the Centre had issued a ranking of the top 100 smart cities of the country. Last year, the city was ranked fifth. Bhopal and Indore are on first two spots.

Kota is at the eighth position followed by Ajmer (9th) and Jaipur (44th). Officials of the smart city project in Udaipur are confident about bringing the city on top position by mid-March by completing 90% projects. Under the smart city project, Rs 1,221 crore was sanctioned for Udaipur city for completing 93 projects.

Smart Cities of Karnataka: A smart city contains a wish list of infrastructure and services to provide for the aspirations and needs of the citizens.

Six Karnataka cities have emerged in the list of smart cities under the government's smart city mission. The government has given special focus on the infrastructure development and robust growth in terms of electricity supply and other technical integration.

The government of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Smart City mission 8 years back in 2015 under the Ministry of Urban Development.

₹1,120 crore allotted for the holistic development of the city

The Corporation, which was selected as one of the 100 ‘Smart Cities’ in the country only in the second round, has climbed-up the ranking ladder to reach the 16th position in the entire country following the recently conducted third phase of assessment of the progress achieved so far on the projects getting executed under the scheme being implemented by Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

The National Democratic Alliance government's flagship Smart Cities Mission, launched in 2015, aimed to bring transformative changes in urban governance in 100 selected cities. As the mission draws to a close in June (revised; December 2023 was the first deadline), the performance of the participating cities has been a mixed bag.

A parliamentary panel report tabled last week stated that Tamil Nadu's Madurai was the only city that completed all of its projects by December 2023. Fifty-six cities completed more than 80% of the work in the same time frame. However, in 14 cities, the progress was 50% and below. Port Blair, Saharanpur, Puducherry, Itanagar, Silvassa, Shillong, Atal Nagar, and Gangtok had completed between 16% and 39% of the assigned projects till then, the standing committee on housing and urban affairs stated.

Lucknow has jumped 20 factors in a month within the rating of sensible metropolis cities. In the newest rankings launched on Friday, his metropolis has moved from 42nd to 24th. The rating has been launched by the central authorities primarily based on the progress of sensible metropolis plans.

In 2016, its metropolis was chosen within the Smart City Scheme. After this, it took two years to start out work, but it surely has grown quickly for one and a half years. This is enhancing the rating. Its metropolis was ranked 42nd a month in the past. After this, it got here all the way down to 24th place on Friday when the tender, work order and work began.

The state capital has climbed 17 notches, since its last half-yearly assessment, to rank 24 among 100 cities evaluated on the basis of projects completed under the Smart City mission.

According to guidelines set by the ministry of housing and urban affairs, which releases these pan-India rankings, the more projects a city completes within stipulated time, the higher position it secures.

While the Sangam city has been witnessing development work under the Smart City Project adding to its beauty, the pace and quality of execution has resulted in hauling the city to the 11th rank among the 100 smart cities of the country in terms of development being done under Smart City.

The Union ministry of urban development and housing released the ranking of 100 Smart Cities of the country on Tuesday. As per the list of March 2021, Prayagraj was at 15th place whereas in the list issued in March 2022, the city has improved its ranking and now is at 11th place.

In a remarkable feat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi has bagged the first position among the 100 smart cities of the country in project implementation on the basis of completed and progressive ongoing projects.

Bhopal is ranked second, followed by Surat on third and Ahmedabad on the fourth rung in the list. Two more cities from Uttar Pradesh are in the top 10 of the list, with Agra on seventh and Kanpur on eighth.

India has fallen by five places in the UN e-government survey 2012 from 119 in 2010 to 124 in 2012. The survey which was released on March 6, 2012 places the Republic of Korea at the top position followed by the Netherlands.

United Kingdom (UK), Denmark and the United States of America (USA) follow in ranking in that order. USA has slipped by three positions and is placed at fifth position as compared to the second position two years ago.

Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, he said e-readiness is the measure of the quality of country's information community technology (ICT) infrastructure and ability of its consumers, businesses and Government to use ICT for their benefit.

The UN E-Government Survey 2018 has ranked India at 96 position for its performance in development and execution of information technologies, up from 107 in 2016 and 118 in 2014, in what can be termed as a massive leap over the years.

The survey, published every two years, ranks 193 UN member states on basis of their performance on mainly three dimensions or e-governance development index (EGDI): online service index (OSI), telecommunication infrastructure index (TII), and human capital index (HCI).

The regulator stated India was ranked at 113th within the Wi-Fi or cellular broadband phase. As per newest Trai knowledge, there have been about 8 crore subscribers utilizing broadband by their cell phones or dongles.

“India is 114th in terms of ‘ICT access, ICT use and ICT skills.” “India ranks 125th for fixed broadband penetration.” We seriously need to think about it,” Trai said. This issue needs to be resolved otherwise who will lay fibre, ” Trai Chairman Rahul Khullar said. If BB could be effectively extended in areas where optical fibre cable is presently existing, the subscription figures would be much higher,” TRAI said.

Brazil comes next to India with 53.1 million users, UK 40.2 million, Germany 39.1 million, Republic of Korea 35.5 million, Italy 32 million and France 31.5 million.

United States leads the chart with 220 million internet users followed by China (210 million) and Japan (88.1 million).

Brazil comes next to India with 53.1 million users, UK 40.2 million, Germany 39.1 million, Republic of Korea 35.5 million, Italy 32 million and France 31.5 million.

The northern state won for shortlisting seven more cities to transform into smart cities.

Uttar Pradesh is the top performer among all Indian states in rankings given by the Centre’s Smart Cities Mission project, followed by Madhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, the Union government said on Friday, releasing the results of the India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) 2020.

The next five positions were bagged by Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab.

While disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the State Information Technology Department said that the Haryana Government had formulated its e-governance roadmap and capacity building roadmap. In implementation of the core infrastructure project of State Wide Area Network (SWAN), Haryana has fallen under the category of level one states in the country, he added.