Prime Minister Narendra Modi would review the progress of the Smart City work for Bhubaneswar on June 25 via videoconferencing.
The Smart City mission, one of the flagship programmes of the NDA Government, had been announced on June 25 last year.
Modi would hold a discussion with Housing and Urban Development Minister Puspendra Singh Deo, Culture and Tourism Minister Ashok Chandra Panda and Bhubaneswar MlAs Bijay Mohanty and Priyadarshi Mishra, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena and Commissioner Dr Krishan Kumar and Smart City CEO Vineel Krishna through videoconferencing from Pune.
Meanwhile, a senior official of the Union Urban Development Ministry visited Bhubaneswar and held discussions with Smart City ltd and BMC officials in this regard. A preparatory meeting was also held at the National Informatics Centre (INC) here where the officials would talk to the PM via videoconferencing, sources said.
Modi would inaugurate works on the Smart City projects from Pune on June 25. The works would start simultaneously in 20 cities across the country, including in Bhubaneswar which topped the Smart City list.