The Golden Temple city of Amritsar topped the list of 27 new smart cities announced by the Minister of Urban Development M.Venkaiah Naidu.
Eight other cities of pilgrim and tourism importance that made to the third list of smart cities are: Ujjain, Tirupati, Agra, Nashik, Madurai, Thanjavur, Ajmer and Varanasi.
With this the number of cities selected under Smart City Mission for financing implementation of smart city plans has gone up to 60.
The new 27 smart cities have proposed an investment of Rs.66,883 cr under smart city plans including Rs.42,524 cr under Area Based Development and another Rs.11,379 cr for technology based Pan-city solutions that benefits all the citizens of respective cities.
With this, the total investment proposed by the 60 cities selected so far has gone up to Rs.1,44,742 cr.
The 27 cities selected in the latest round of ‘Smart City Challenge’ competition in order of the marks scored by them are:
| S.No | City | State |
| 1 | Amritsar | Punjab |
| 2 | Kalyan-Dombivili | Maharashtra |
| 3 | Ujjain | Madhya Pradesh |
| 4 | Tirupati | Andhra Pradesh |
| 5 | Nagpur | Maharashtra |
| 6 | Managaluru | Karnataka |
| 7 | Vellore | Tamil Nadu |
| 8 | Thane | Maharashtra |
| 9 | Gwalior | MP |
| 10 | Agra | Uttar Pradesh |
| 11 | Nashik | Maharashtra |
| 12 | Rourkela | Odisha |
| 13 | Kanpur | UP |
| 14 | Madurai | Tamil Nadu |
| 15 | Tumakuru | Karnataka |
| 16 | Kota | Rajasthan |
| 17 | Thanjavur | Tamil Nadu |
| 18 | Namchi | Sikkim |
| 19 | Jalandhar | Punjab |
| 20 | Shivamogga | Karnataka |
| 21 | Salem | Tamil Nadu |
| 22 | Ajmer | Rajasthan |
| 23 | Varanasi | UP |
| 24 | Kohima | Nagaland |
| 25 | Hubbali-Dharwad | Karnataka |
| 26 | Aurangabad | Maharashtra |
| 27 | Vadodara | Gujarat |
The 27 smart cities announced are from 12 States including 5 from Maharashtra, 4 each from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, 3 from Uttar Pradesh and 2 each from Punjab and Rajasthan.
Nagaland and Sikkim have made it to the smart city list for the first time.