Tripura to complete projects under ‘Smart Cities Mission’ by 2020

Agartala: The Tripura government has taken numerous initiatives under ‘Smart Cities Mission’ inviting tenders of Rs 211 crore for Agartala city. The projects are likely to be completed within 2020 and works worth Rs 78 lakh have already been completed. Moreover, the government has also undertaken planning for all-round development of municipal councils and Nagar panchayats in Tripura.

Chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who is also looking after urban development portfolio, gave this information to a query jointly raised by BJP MLAs Sankar Roy and Sudhangshu Das in this state assembly’s Budget session.

“An expenditure of Rs 113.70 crore is necessary for various planning that were made under ‘Smart Cities Mission’ project for Agartala city-Pan City, Integrated Command and Control Centre where installation of 464 CCTV cameras, 23 Digital signboards, 23 electronic signals, 23 digital information kiosks, 81 red light violation detectors, 45 smart bus stops, 173 GPS-based buses, smart poles in six places, automatic number plate registration at 46 places, laying of optical fibre in 102 km,” Deb said.