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Director of Smart City Mission honoured CEO Amritsar Smart City Jaggi
Amritsar, September 5 (Punjab Post Bureau) – The “RAAHI” (Rejuvenation of Auto-rickshaws in Amritsar through 
Holistic Intervention) project of the Smart City Mission to improve public transport and reduce pollution in the city has got second place in the country for successfully completed the maturation phase of the Project. For which Municipal Commissioner and CEO Amritsar Smart City Malwinder Singh Jaggi has been honoured by Kunal Kumar Joint Secretary Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Director of Smart City Mission in a special program held in Delhi.
It is to remember that the Amritsar Smart City’s RAAHI project is part of the CITIIS (city investments to innovate, integrate and sustain) Program which is run by the of the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, French Development Agency (AFD), European Union and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA). The RAAHI project was selected from a total of 67 projects in 37 cities across the country in 2019. A total of 12 cities were selected across the country under the CITIIS Program, out of which Chennai stood first, Amritsar second and Surat third in successfully completing the maturation phase. On this occasion, the CEOs of Smart Cities of these cities have been honoured in a special program held in Delhi. It is to be known that under the RAAHI project, old diesel autos running in the city will be replaced with e-autos, for which financial subsidy will be provided to auto-drivers as well as loans at minimal interest rates. Along with this, charging stations would also be installed in the city to charge the e-vehicles.
Giving more details about this, CEO Amritsar Smart City Malwider Singh Jaggi said that Amritsar would be the first city in the country where e-autos would be made a part of the public transport system on such a large scale. He said that very soon the project will be formally started.
