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Work starts on UP’s first smart city project Navyug

Work commenced on Navyug housing and commercial project in Allahabad, billed as Uttar Pradesh's first smart city in the greenfield category. The Rs 600 crore project situated on the Allahabad-Kanpur highway would be developed under the private sector and REPL has been roped as its knowledge partner. REPL has been empaneled by the central government, along with some other agencies, as a specialist consultant for developing smart cities across the country. CMD, New Modern Buildwell Pvt Ltd, PN Misra said "there are three categories of Smart Cities that the central government's policy envisages. One is to develop existing cities into Smart Cities by completely transforming them. Second category is of using vacant spaces in existing cities to provide Smart City features to the residents and the third is developing new townships as Smart Cities. Our Allahabad project called Navyug, falls in the third category. He said that possession of housing and office spaces would co...

Operation Smile: Rajnath Singh's push helps recover 2500 missing children

Four months ago, a report landed on  Home Minister  Rajnath Singh's table from the Ghaziabad Police. Pleasantly surprised to find that the police unit had recovered 227  missing   children  within 30 days by launching a unique campaign,  'Operation Smile' , Singh decided to ask all states to emulate this campaign. The plan has worked as at least eight states have told the Ministry that they rescued over 2500 missing children in the month of January alone by emulating the  campaign  of Ghaziabad Police. ET has accessed the letter written by then Home Secretary Anil Goswami, on Singh's instructions, to the police chiefs of all states on December 12, detailing contours of the new plan. "Since the  Supreme Court  has been emphasizing upon the early recovery of all missing children, it is desirable that based on the experience gained in 'Operation Smile', all states may take up this initiative," the letter had said. It added th...

Nitin Gadkari Report Card

1  Road projects worth Rs 50,000 cr to start this year in UP: Gadkari   2  200 cr trees to be planted along highways: Gadkari 3  Rs 10 Lakh Cr Investment in Highways, Shipping by 2019: Gadkari 4  Stuck Rs 1.8lakh crore road projects to be launched by Aug15: Nitin Gadkari 5  Electronic toll system can help save Rs 86K crore annually: Nitin Gadkari 6  Nitin Gadkari aims at 30 kilometre road building a day by 2016 7  Gadkari clears Rs.17,700 crore projects for Bengal 8  Toll collections scrapped at 62 plazas in 15 states: Govt