NEW DELHI: Among 100 Smart Cities, Surat and Indore have bagged the best award for their overall performance in 2020 and Uttar Pradesh won the state award.
Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu finished as the first and second runner up.
In 2019, Surat was the sole winner among smart cities.
This is the first time when the housing and urban affairs ministry has given awards to states for the overall performance of the smart cities and for their proactive role.
UP has got the first award for taking up the development of seven more cities on its own as smart cities.
These are Meerut, Ghaziabad, Ayodhya, Ferozabad, Gorakhpur, Mathura-Vrindavan and Saharanpur.
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Indore, Surat bag Smart Cities award; UP best among states
