India, US to develop smart cities across India

New Delhi, Jan 27: India and the US Tuesday decided to take "quick measures" for development of Visakhapatnam, Allahabad and Ajmer as smart cities. Issues relating to development of these cities as smart ones were discussed in detail at a meeting held here between Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu and US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, an official statement said here. They decided to form a task force for each of the three cities to formulate concrete action plans in the next three months. Each Team will consist of three representatives each from the central and respective state governments and the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). Each city task force will discuss city specific features, project requirements and appropriate revenue models for enabling flow of investments, before suggesting action plans for developing them as smart cities, it said.