Dehradun, (PTI) Seventy per cent of the work to turn Dehradun into a smart city has been completed at a cost of Rs 635.59 crore, the Uttarakhand Assembly was told on Friday.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal, replying to Congress MLA Pritam Singh’s query during Question Hour on the third day of the Monsoon session, said the central and state governments have to meet the total cost of the project, worth approximately Rs 1,000 crore, on a 50-50 basis.
While the Centre released 394.50 crore of its share, the state government allocated Rs 241.09 crore, Agarwal said.
