Eleven smart cities envisioned cleanliness and greenery while submitting vision statements to the MoUD (Ministry of Urban Development). In vision submission statement by 50 smart city, maximum cities want to be clean and green, followed by 9 cities seeking to leverage rich cultural heritage legacy for stimulating development, 8 cities stating economic growth and development upfront as the core of their vision and the rest seeking to emerge as tourism hubs, port cities, education and health hubs, industrial and institutional centres etc., taking advantage of unique features and strengths of respective cities. Promoting economic development, improving quality of life and enabling inclusive urbanisation is mentioned as part of the vision by most of the cities. As required under the Mission Guidelines, each of the Mission Cities has formulated City Vision Statement based on citizen consultations.
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