The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation had launched a contest on MyGov to crowd-source suggestions on a suitable name for the new Mission on "Housing for All by 2022".

Diu City a city of tiny island Diu District of U.T. Administration of Daman & Diu has been selected for Smart City mission-2015 in stage-I.

Government of India as a part of its health initiative through the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has created the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) to promote Organ Donation and transplantation.

Varanasi Municipal Corporation has received overwhelming response from its citizen in smart city suggestions and ideas to improve their city under Smart City Challenge.

Jabalpur Municipal Corporation has received overwhelming response from citizens under all citizen participation activity.

The administrative responsibilities of the New Delhi are managed by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area.

As part of citizen engagement & consultation process (for preparation of Smart City Proposal) Tirupati Municipal Corporation organized a wide range of activities – e.g. Ward level consultations, Stakeholders Consultations, essay writing competition etc starting from 1st Oct 2015 to 20th Nov 2015.

Citizens participated in an essay competition “Mere sapno ka KARNAL” (Hindi), “My dream city KARNAL” (English) for developing the vision statements for proposed Smart City.

Smart City Mission is now in its final phase of citizen engagement. Haldia Municipality has initiated this process of citizen consultations of the “Smart City Challenge” where the Pan-city smart solutions and Area Based Development proposal has been drafted.

Panaji Smart City Open Forum debate discussed issues related to Mobility, Heritage and Waste Management.