Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday would lay the foundation stone for Ranchi Smart City coming up on the HEC land. Urban Development Minister CP Singh said that this would be the country’s first ‘green-field’ smart city.
“The smart city is coming up on 656 acres of HEC land which would be fully wi-fi, carbon free, garbage free locality with modernised housing, traffic management system, education hub and equipped with facilities like round the clock power and water supplies,” said Singh on Friday.
Answering about Ranchi Metro which is one of the features of the Smart City, Principal Secretary Arun Singh said that the proposal was being re-examined. “The Centre has come up with a new Metro Rail policy and they are examining our proposal sent for their approval earlier. After getting approval we would go ahead with the project in Ranchi,” he said.