Smart cities to be built in Rajarhat New Town
The government plans to develop smart cities and townships across the state with high-density vertical buildings and adequate green area. The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has already started following the model for Rajarhat New Town.
An NKDA official said they are trying to showcase New Town as the Singapore of Kolkata and the authorities were putting stress on optimum utilization of space by going vertical when it comes to real estate development.
The state government has already come up with a new urban policy that relaxes floor area ratio (FAR) to make way for buildings with larger space. According to the policy, 15 percent additional FAR will be allowed for mass housing, IT complexes and mega commercial housing complexes.
This development of smart cities was decided previously in the budget. Smart cities were a dream of the Prime Minister. The enactment of this work has already been started. This decision has seen to act. The smart cities have been started to be built. The smart cities will be having facilities like latest technologies and will also be a fully satellite city.
Source: The Times of India
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