Compared to the last two years, the Smart Cities Mission did not get a big mention in the Finance Minister’s Budget speech earlier this month. However, Arun Jaitley did set aside R9,000 crore for the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Smart Cities Mission, as against R7,296 crore in the last Budget. As for the mission’s movement on the ground, projects worth R1,32,197 crore were approved between January and December 2016 in the 60 cities that have been selected so far.
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