CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -On 7 September 2019, the Aurangabad Industrial City was inaugurated as the first industrial integrated smart city of India under the Government of India’s flagship Smart Cities Mission.

Detailed explanation-2: -Atal Nagar, Chhattisgarh is India’s First Integrated Green Field Smart City.

Detailed explanation-3: -List of Cities for Smart City Mission in India. A total of 100 cities are selected as of date. In the first slot, West Bengal, Mumbai and Navi Mumbai submitted the proposal, but later, they withdrew the application. Most of the cities are from Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in the Smart Cities Mission.

Detailed explanation-4: -The city in the backward Marathwada region is billed as the country’s first greenfield industrial smart city, which has been developed as part of the Delhi Mumbai industrial corridor, where the government is attempting to fasten up industrial growth between two of the nation’s biggest cities.