Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Urban Development minister Venkaiah Naidu for selecting three more cities from Uttar Pradesh under the Smart City project of Union government.
The three cities selected by the Centre are Jhansi, Aligarh and Allahabad.
Now, a total of seven cities have been announced under the smart city project. lucknow, Kanpur, Agra and Varanasi had been announced earlier.
However, the UP government has proposed five more cities to be considered for the Smart City project which includes Meerut, Rae Bareli, Ghaziabad, Saharanpr and Rampur.
“We are grateful to the PM and Urban Development minister for adding these cities in the Smart City list. We will continue our efforts to get five more cities enrolled in the list in the coming days,” said the Chief Minister in a statement issued in lucknow on Friday.
Yogi said that the UP government would co-operate fully with the Centre to make these cities a model in the country, making them fully smart.
Under the Smart City project, every family in these cities would get affordable houses, basic infrastructure like sanitation, 24-hour drinking water and power, good education, modern security, entertainment and sports facilities, besides good hospitals and fast road, rail and air connectivity.
On Thursday, the CM had proposed to build Smart Villages with all facilities including quality power, potable water, health centres and houses. He also announced that in the next three years, the government would provide 24 lakh houses to BPl families.