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Venkaiah Naidu Laid Foundation Of Country's First 'green-field' Smart City
Date of Publish - Thursday, 12th October 2017
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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu laid the foundation stone for Ranchi Smart City on the Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) land. According to the Urban Development Minister CP Singh, this would be the country’s first ‘green-field’ smart city. The smart city is coming up on 656 acres of HEC land which would be fully wi-fi, carbon free, garbage free locality with modernized housing, traffic management system, education hub and equipped with facilities like round the clock power and water supplies