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A new centre for smart cities has been started at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh.
M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation inaugurated the centre today. Srini Raju, Chairman, Sri City Foundation and Member Secretary, IIIT and others were present.
The Centre is expected to help Sri City in managing the water and power resources efficiently, besides balancing its ecosystem.
Naidu said it was among the first of such initiatives by an academic institution.
Ravindra Sannareddy, chief of Sri City said," Centre for Smart Cities’ of IIIT would enable R&D of such technologies for building smart cities and smart villages, and aid in achieving the goals announced by central and state governments."
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