Mostly foreign consulting firms to prepare plans for 88 Smart Cities

Ahead of the two day Smart City Ideas Camp beginning in New Delhi today, the government has selected 37 consulting firms, most of them foreign, for preparing action plans for 88 of the proposed Smart Cities.

The consultants include KPMG, which would prepare the roadmap to make New Delhi Municipal Corporation a smart city, NK Buildcon (Varanasi), Lea Associates (Tirupati), ICRA (Ajmer), Data World (Lucknow), Alia Consulting (Greater Mumbai), Jones Lang La Salle (Amritsar), Ecorys Nederland BV (Bhagalpur), among others.

The remaining 10 cities in North-Eastern states and union territories will do so by this week end. Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir are still to nominate one city each for smart city development.

CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Limited in association with Pri Move Infrastructure Development Consultants Private Ltd and Probity Soft Private Limited has bagged the contract for six cities.

Jones Lang La Salle Property Consultants India Pvt Ltd in association with Townland Consultants Pvt Ltd and Tata Consulting Engineers, ICRA Management Consulting Private Limited in association with NJS Engineers India Private Limited and All India Institute of Local Self-Government will prepare action plans for five cities each.

Foreign companies or their Indian associates are associated with the preparation of smart city plans for most of the cities.

The selection process has been fast-tracked through tendering by the mission cities and the ministry of urban development drawing up a panel of consultants for each region.

Details of cities and respective consultants are:

• Nagpur, Kalian-Dombivali, Nasik, Thane, Solapur and Amaravati, all in Maharashtra – CRISIL;
• Rajkot, Kochi, Ajmer, Erode and Coimbattore- ICRA;
• Chandigarh, Raipur, Bilaspur, Karnal, and Faridabad - All India Institute of Local Self-Government (Mumabi);
• Vadodara, Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, Chennai and Tiruchirapalli - Jones Lang La Salle;
• Surat (Gujarat), Belgavi, Hubbai-Dharwad (Karnataka) and Dind - Darashaw & Co in association with IDOM Inginieriay Consultoria SAU and Fundacion Cartiff;
• Biharshariff, Oulgaret (Puducherry), Tiruppur and Thoothukudi (TN)-Mahindra Consulting Engineers Ltd in association with SUEZ Environment Consulting and Akara Research and Technologies Pvt Ltd;
• Ahmedabad, Rourkela, Kota and Agartala - Feedback Infra Pvt Ltd in association with Happold Engineers India Pvt Ltd and CISCO Systems
• Gandhinagar, Indore and Jabalpur - Mehta and Associates in joint venture with Oswal Computers and Consultants;
• Gwalior, Sagar and Satna - Voyants Solutions Pvt Ltd in association with MINRAJ Consultants;
• Kanput, Ghaziabad and Thanjavur (TN) - Dorsh Holding GmbH in association with Dorsh Consult India Pvt Ltd and L R Kadaliya and Associates;
• Greater Mumbai, Muzaffarpur, Durgapur (W Bengal)- Alia Consulting Solutions Pvt Ltd and Genesis Fin Tech;
• Ujjain, Dahod (Gujarat)- Haskoning DHV Consulting Pvt Ltd in joint venture with Haskoning DHV Nederland B.V and Grant Thornton Green Boulevard;
• New Town Kolkata and Bidahannagar (West Bengal)- Deloitte Touche Tohmastsu India Pvt Ltd in association with Urban Management Consultant and Hijli Inspiration;
• Tirupati (AP) and Tumakuru (Karnataka)- Lea Associates South Asia Ltd in association with Crux Consultants Pvt Ltd and VB Soft Private Ltd;
• Mangaluru and Udaipur - IIDC Ltd in association with Urban Mass Transport Company Ltd and Building Design Partnership Ltd;
• Allahabad and Aligarh - Aarvee Associates Architects, Engineers and Consultants Ltd in association with Mars Telecom Systems Pvt Ltd;
• Lucknow and Namchi (Sikkim) - Data World Pty Ltd in association with Innovest Advisory Services Pvt Ltd and Caritas Eco Systems Pvt Ltd;
• Rampur and Moradabad - Engineers India Ltd in association with JPS Associates Pvt Ltd;
• Selam and Madurai (TN) - Infrastructure Development Corporation (Karnataka) Limited in association with IDFC Foundation;
• Vellore and Tirunelveli (TN) - Shah Technical Consultants Pvt Ltd;
• Agra and Bareilly - International City Management Association with Urban Management Centre and Edge Soft India Pvt Ltd;
• Aizawl and Haldia - Arki Techno Consultants (India) Pvt Ltd and IRS Systems South Asia Pvt Ltd;
• Hyderabad, Aurangabad - Knight Frank (India) Pvt ltd with Fortress Infrastructure services and PSP Financial Consultants Pvt Ltd;
• New Delhi Municipal Council – KPMG;
• Bhagalpur - Ecorys Nederland BV with Ecorys India Pvt Ltd;
• Dharmashala - TERI with Tractebel Engineering SA, Belgium and Avalon Infrastructure solutions Pvt Ltd;
• Ranchi - I K Worldwide with SCP Consultants Pvt Ltd;
• Davanagere (Karnataka) - CRP Risk Management with Infrastructure Management and Advisory services Pvt Ltd;
• Shivamogga(Karnataka)- Srei Infrastructure Pvt Ltd with Navayuga Spatial Technologies and RSP Design Consultants;
• Pune – McKinsey;
• Navi Mumbai - Tandon Urban Solutions Pvt Ltd with Spatial Decisions and Maha Infortech Pvt Ltd;
• Bhopal – Price Waterhouse Coopers with Rudrabhishek Enterprise and CPG Consultants Pvt Ltd;
• Jaipur – Mott MacDonald Pvt Ltd with Ernst and Young LLP;
• Sahranpur – Soft Tech Engineers Pvt Ltd with Design Point Consult Pvt Ltd;
• Dehradun – DDF Consultants Pvt Ltd with MSN Infrastructure and SGI Studio Galli Ingenieria Pvt Ltd;
• Visakhapatnam and Ludhiana – AECOM India Pvt Ltd with AECOM Asia Company Ltd; and
• Varanasi and Jhansi - NK Buildcon Pvt Ltd.

Ministry of urban development has already released Rs2 crore each per mission city for preparation of city-wise Smart City plans.

The selected consulting firms will prepare smart city proposals under the supervision of urban local bodies and state governments based on review of previous plans and interventions undertaken.

Smart City plans should contain area development action plans and financing plan for the complete life cycle of the proposal.

All city-wise Smart City plans will be evaluated in the second stage of City Challenge competition for identifying the top ranking 20 cities for financing during the current financial year.