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What is the News?
The Centre has extended the timeline for the implementation of the Smart Cities Mission to June 2023.
What is the Smart Cities Mission?
The Smart Cities Mission was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in 2015.
Type: Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
Click here to read more about Smart Cities Mission
What is a Smart City?
There is no standard definition or template of a smart city. In the context of our country, the six fundamental principles on which the concept of Smart Cities is based are:
| Read more: Smart Cities Mission that aimed at providing better cities and infrastructure has failed to do so |
Source: This post is based on the article “Govt extends Smart Cities Mission timeline to 2023” published in Indian Express on 2nd December 2021.
