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【New Delhi】The Narendra Modi government is kicking off its ambitious smart cities programme along the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor (DMIC) leg that is located in Gujarat.
　The tendering process for the Dholera special investment region in Gujarat is to be launched shortly, expected to cost worth close to Rs 3,000 crore for building trunk infrastructure on the 22.5 square km.
　The smart city close to Ahmedabad will cover a route length of 920 km on the corridor, of which 154 km will be developed in the first phase. It will be followed by three others by March. The 2,700-km DMIC was sanctioned in 2007.
　Prime Minister Modi has announced 100 smart cities, some of these along industrial corridors, as it seeks to turn India into a global manufacturing hub as part of its Make in India initiative.

○Google is interested in helping in Digital India: Vint Cerf

【New Delhi】Widely recognised as one of the “fathers of the Internet”, Vinton Gray Cerf, also the vice-president and chief internet evangelist for Google, on the 6th of January, held discussions with Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and secretary Ram Sewak Sharma and other officials of the ministry of communications and information technology over the government’s ambitious Digital India project.
　“My impression after two days of discussions is that they have a fairly well-chalked plan. The energy is really there, the passion is really there… they convinced me that they are absolutely passionate about making this happen,” he said on the sidelines of a FICCI conference. “It is a very early stage of discussion. Google is interested in being helpful (to the Digital India project). We have some ideas. We want to share with them those ideas to find out which of them make sense. Maybe they will have better ideas than us,”Mr. Cerf

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Smart cities: Gujarat’s Dholera zone sets pace for the flagship programme in new year

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