Chhattisgarh to invest Rs. 10,000 crore in new capital city.

Chhattisgarh government recently said it would be investing Rs 10,000 crore over the next 2-3 years in Naya Raipur, the upcoming new capital city, to turn it into a smart and electronic city.

'We have already invested Rs. 6,000 crore to create basic infrastructure, including connectivity, power supply....We plan to invest another Rs. 10,000 crore to create amenities as well as to develop an electronic city in this smart city,' principal secretary, energy and IT Aman Kumar Singh told PTI.

He was here to attend a NASSCOM event with the Chief Minister Raman Singh.

The state government had shifted focus from creating manufacturing capacities for steel, aluminium and setting up power generation capacities to IT/ITeS as a part of the Central government's mission to create digital India, he said.

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