AGARTALA, June 19 (TIWN): Rs. 165 crore has been sanctioned for SMART City project for Agartala, on the first day of Tripura Assembly Finance Minister Jishnu Debbarma announced that.

At the same time, Govt has proposed to create two more reservoirs at Champak Nagar and Champaichara to control the flood and some projects to save Howrah have been proposed to be launched.

Govt is also taking initiative to diminish the water-logging problems of the city and there was mention in the budget about this.

Smart Cities Mission, sometimes referred to as Smart City Mission, is an urban renewal and retrofitting program by the Government of India with the mission to develop 100 cities across the country making them citizen friendly and sustainable and Central Govt is giving its full support to Tripura Govt to make Agartala a smart city.

In the budget proposals about IIIT’s establishment, land recovery from mafias have taken place.