Smart Cities Mission: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 3 June 2023

Smart Cities Mission

✓It is an initiative of the MoHUA launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on June 25, 2015.

✓To promote cities that provide core infrastructure, and a clean and sustainable environment, 100 cities (to be developed as Smart Cities) have been selected through a two-stage competition (from January 2016 to June 2018).

✓66 of the cities are small (less than 1 million population) and are implementing two-thirds of the projects.

It aims to:

✓Drive economic growth through comprehensive work on social, economic, physical and institutional pillars of the city and

Improve the quality of life through smart solutions.

✓Focus on sustainable and inclusive development by the creation of replicable models which act as lighthouses to other aspiring cities.