New Delhi: The government on Friday declared names of 30 more refers to be developed as smart cities taking the total cities areas grabbed so far to 90 under Smart City Mission propelled on June 25, 2015.

Thiruvananthapuram has topped the list of new smart city list. Names of smart cities areas declared today are: Trivandrum, Naya Raipur, Rajkit, Amaravati, Patna, Karimnagar, Muzaffarpur, Puducherry, Gandhinagar, Srinagar, Sagar, Karnal, Satna, Bengaluru, Shimla, Dehradun, Tiruppur, Pimpri chinchwad, Bilaspur, Pasighat, Jammu, Dahod, Tirunelveli, Thootukkudi, Tiruchirapalli, Jhansi, Aizawl, Allahabad, Aligarh, Gangtok

Declaring the new cluster of shrewd urban communities at a National Workshop on Urban Transformation in the national capital, Minister of Urban Development and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation M.Venkaiah Naidu said that 45 urban communities challenged for 40 accessible savvy city spaces yet just 30 were chosen.

30 cities declared today proposed a total investment of Rs 57,393 crore under separate smart city arranges.

This incorporates Rs 46,879 crore for guaranteeing center foundation in the territories recognized by natives for region based advancement and Rs 10,514 crore for technology based solutions for enhancing administration, benefit conveyance and use of infrastructure.

With this, the total investment approved under the smart city plans of 90 cities has gone up to Rs1,91,155 crore.

Naidu siad that 20 cities will be challenging for the rest of the 10 spaces under smart city mission. These are; Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Biharsharif (Bihar), Diu (Daman and Diu), Silvassa (Dadra and Nager Haveli), Kavaratti (Lakshadweep), Navimumbai, Greater Mumbai and Amaravati (Maharashtra), Imphal (Manipur), Shillong (Meghalaya), Dindigul and Erode(Tamil Nadu), Bidhannagar, Durgapur and Haldia (West Bengal), Meerut,Rai Bareilly, Ghaziabad, Sharanpur and Rampur (UP).