Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was a bit confused today when the consortium of global companies, appointed to prepare master plan for Smart Cities, sought another 18 months to prepare a detailed plan for making Vizag a smart city. Today in a review meeting , held at Vizag, the representatives from AECOM, KPMG and IBO said they needed six months for basic analysis at field level, six months for the preparation of implementation plan and six months for the preparation of basic master. Naidu did not agree with them. Expressing dissatisfaction at the delay, the CM told them how the Singapore agency prepared the complete master plan for the Amaravati capital in just six months. Union urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu was also present in the meeting.

Naidu also told them how the Singapore experts stuck to their deadline. Even though Prime Minister announced the plan to make Tirupati, Vijayawada and Vizag cities into smart cities a year back there had been no progress, Naidu remarked.

He asked the consortium to complete the plan in 15 months and asked them to submit the preliminary report by December. The representatives from US Trade Development Agency also participated in the meeting.