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Japan to associate with India for development of three smart cities

The Dollar Business Bureau Japanese Ambassador to India Kenji Hiramatsu's meet with Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, on 6 Jan 2017, proved fruitful for India's smart city aspirations. Japan articulated its interest in the urban development initiatives of the Indian Government and decided to be a partner. Chennai, Ahmedabad and Varanasi are the three cities Japan is going to assist in the process of smart city development. The MoU on cooperation in urban development, signed during the recent visit of British Prime Minister Theresa May, is also making headway following a meeting between Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and British High Commissioner Dominic Asquith. The last few years have seen heavy investment from foreign countries in India's ambitious 'smart city' plans for ...

Naidu and USTDA discuss about Smart Cities

The Dollar Business Bureau A delegation headed by the Leocadia I Zak, Director of US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) on Wednesday met M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and discussed about the smart cities mission, for which MoUs have been signed. “The discussion was centred on the three smart cities – Visakhapatnam, Ajmer and Allahabad – for which Memorandums of Understanding MoUs has been signed between the respective state governments and USTDA,” according to an official release. Naidu said that the process of selecting the smart cities (a competition between cities to be included in the mission) is very transparent, scientific and participative, and is serving as a ‘role model’ for several ...

India wants Global Infrastructure Hub to kick-off

The Dollar Business Bureau India on Wednesday, called for an early operationalisation of ‘Global Infrastructure Hub’, which has been set up following the last G-20 Summit for the development of a knowledge sharing platform and to improve investment as sought by Prime Minister of India at Brisbane. Representing India, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha attended a G-20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 9 & 10, 2015. In his address during various sessions at the event, the Indian Minister called for investments, especially in the infrastructure sector, as a goal to achieve the G-20 collective growth objective. The Minister further called for a long term financing from institutional investors ...

Centre seeks public investment in building smart cities

 The Dollar Business Bureau The Union Minister of Urban Development, Venkaiah Naidu on Friday laid stress over Public-Private-People Partnership (4P) and Smart Leadership, Smart Governance, Smart Technologies and Smart People (4S), as key processes towards successful urban management and achievement of Smart Cities initiative. Addressing the ‘Consultation Workshop with States and Stakeholders’ being organized by his Ministry, Naidu said building smart cities is all about 4S and 4P. Stating that the Public-Private-People Partnership is the best destination in meeting the resource challenges, Naidu called the people to become partners in the city development by willing to pay for the value addition to the services and enforce accountability. Attracting investments, adoption of technology platforms to reduce human-human interface, ensuring online delivery of services and ...