NITI Aayog, along with the UN in India and MyGov, is pleased to announce that the stories of 25 women, from villages, towns and cities across the country, have been shortlisted for Women Transforming India Contest organised on MyGov.

Baisakhi is the harvest festival celebrated on 13th April in Punjab. The festival is important to Sikh community, as it marks the birth of the Khalsa Panth.

Ambedkar Jayanti is celebrated every year on 14th April in memory of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution.

The past is often used to keep non-western cultures and civilizations in a vice-like grip and it comes from imposing limits on vision for the future. We have to define our own culture in terms of our own categories and concepts and to articulate our vision in a language that is true to our self.

Speed + scale define many initiatives of the Modi government. India's Smart Cities Mission (SCM) is a good example. From June 2015 to December 2015, 97 cities in India put together their ‘smart city proposals.’ 20 winners were declared in January 2016, all in less than 200 days.

Considering the comments of MoUD, responses from the citizens, discussions with experts, planners, engineers, architects; the Panaji’s Revised Draft of Smart City Proposal is now available for citizen’s review.

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Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) and Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) take the pride to initiate the Draft Smart City Proposal presentation for citizen under the fast track submission of Smart Cities Challenge, Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD).

The Imphal Smart City Team has prepared a revised draft of the Imphal Smart City Proposal Presentation taking into consideration the inputs received from the citizens and stakeholders.

Pasighat Municipal Council has prepared the revamped Smart City Proposal for Pasighat under 23 Fast Track Cities selected by MoUD, GoI.